^{page 393 note 1} To justify isolating businessmen Stone replies (using Daniel Duman) that only 25% of barristers in 1885 came from “business backgrounds.” What Duman emphasizes, however, is that 75% had fathers generally classifiable as “urban middle class,” and that even in the eighteenth century two-thirds had non-landed backgrounds (pp. 108, 16).

^{page 394 note 2} I cannot find the promised discussion of this graph.

^{page 395 note 3} 5 George IV c. 87. This is probably Parliament's only real general statement on portions, for Scottish entails were perpetual.

^{page 395 note 4} Williams, Joshua. The Settlement of Real Estate (1879), p. 220Google Scholar. See also Trumbach, , The Rise of the Egalitarian Family (New York, 1979), p. 103.Google Scholar

^{page 395 note 5} Nor can I discuss legal forms–Stone's emphasis on a form fundamentally impracticable, of no account.

^{page 396 note 6} The Guardian, Sept. 6, 1984.

^{page 396 note 1} Reviewed in this issue, pp. 332-34 (Editor).