^{page vi note 1} Chatham Papers, Public Record Office, 231. This description of the working of the Treasury and the allied departments of the British government was prepared in the year between June, 1782, and June, 1783, no doubt in the administration of Shelburne when Pitt was Chancellor of the Exchequer.

^{page vii note 1} Page 42.

^{page viii note 1} Commonplace Arguments against Administration with Obvious Answers, p. 12.Google Scholar

^{page ix note 1} Page 42.

^{page x note 1} A Letter to Mr. Debrett, being an Answer to Lucubrations during a short Recess, p. 23.Google Scholar

^{page x note 2} Parliaments of England, three volumes, published in London, 1844–50.

^{page xi note 1} Wyvill, Christopher, Political Papers, IV. 242.Google Scholar

^{page xii note 1} English Historical Review, XXXI. 224.Google Scholar

^{page xii note 2} Rose, J. Holland, William Pitt and National Revival, p. 272.Google Scholar

^{page xii note 3} American Historical Review, XVIII. 254.Google Scholar

^{page xiii note 1} Historical Manuscripts Commission, Tenth Report, Appendix, Pt. VI. p. 61.Google Scholar

^{page xiii note 2} Ibid., p. 62.

^{page xiii note 3} Ibid., p. 62.

^{page xiii note 4} Page 66.

^{page xiv note 1} Page 105.

^{page xv note 1} Page 10.

^{page xv note 2} Historical Manuscripts Commission, Tenth Report, Appendix, Part VI. p. 63.Google Scholar

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^{page xx note 1} The Editor is indebted to the Rev. W. Hunt's edition of the electoral propaganda relating to “The Irish Parliament of 1775” (1907) for an instructive analogy.