[14] Montesquieu, “Esprit des Lois,” bk. viii, ch. v.
[15] See Sidney and Beatrice Webb, “The Parish and the County,” bk. i, ch. iv; bk. ii, ch. ii; Boutmy, “The Eng. Constitution” (Eng. edit.), pt. iii, sect. 3.
[16] Howell, State Trials, xxiii, 231.
[17] Delavoye, “Life of T. Graham,” 87.
[18] “Letters from Lady Jane Coke to her friend, Mrs. Eyre, at Derby (1747–58).”
[19] C. P. Moritz, “Travels in England in 1782”; W. Wales, “Inquiry into the ... Population of England” (1781), estimated the number of houses in London at 100,000, and the population at 650,000.
[20] See, too, Wroth’s “London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century.”
[21] See [ch. xx] of this volume for details; also T. Clarkson’s “Hist. of the Abolition of the Slave Trade,” especially chs. xvii, xviii; and Prof. Ramsay Muir’s “Hist. of Liverpool,” ch. xii.
[22] “Hamlet,” i, sc. 4.
[23] “Wealth of Nations,” bk. iv, ch. iii, pt. 2.