[44] See Note XXXVIII.

[45] See Note XXXIX., Violation of Vested and Corporate Rights.

[46] [This remark must be taken with some qualification as to the fact. These distinctions are not wholly eradicated at the present day in England, but they are mere questions of property, not of personal rank or political influence.]

[47] See Note XL.

[48] See Note XLI., Exemptions of Public Officers from Taxation.

[49] See Note XLII.

[50] See Note XLIII.

[51] See Note XLIV., Instructions of the Order of Nobility at the States-General of 1789.

[52] See Note XLV., Religious Administration of an Ecclesiastical Province in the Eighteenth Century.

[53] See Note XLVI., Spirit of the Clergy.