35 ([return])
[ Gray's Journal of a Tour in the Lakes, Oct. 3, 1769.]
36 ([return])
[ North's Life of Guildford; Hutchinson's History of Cumberland, Parish of Brampton.]
37 ([return])
[ See Sir Walter Scott's Journal, Oct. 7, 1827, in his Life by Mr. Lockhart.]
38 ([return])
[ Dalrymple, Appendix to Part II. Book I. The returns of the hearth money lead to nearly the same conclusion. The hearths in the province of York were not a sixth of the hearths of England.]
39 ([return])
[ I do not, of course, pretend to strict accuracy here; but I believe that whoever will take the trouble to compare the last returns of hearth money in the reign of William the Third with the census of 1841, will come to a conclusion not very different from mine.]