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1. References toquotations from Burke's writings and speeches have not been given, inorder to save space, if the source is obvious, i.e. where quotation ismade from a well-known work identified in the text.

2. Though he doesappear in encyclopaedias, see e.g. Freeman, M., 1992.

3. Burke to RichardShackleton, 21 March, 1747, Corr, 1958–78, vol.i, p. 89.

4. Burke to John S.Bowen, 1 October 1786, Corr, 1958–78, vol.x, p. 19.

5. Burke, draftletter to William Markham, after 9 November 1771, Corr,1958–78, vol.ii., pp. 253, 268.

6. Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), PrimeMinister of the United Kingdom 1923–4, 1924–9, 1935–7. For Baldwin'soutstanding political skill, of which his bucolic anddomesticpersona was only part and not the chief part, seeWilliamson, P., 1999.

7. A well-chosenselection of caricatures is in Robinson, N.K., 1996.

8. Sir WilliamBlackstone, in Hull & Temperley, eds, 1911–12: p. 569 (contractionsexpanded).

9. Second Earl ofBuckinghamshire, memorandum on commencement of the American Rebellion,Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1905: p. 291.

10. Speech of 18 April1794, reported inThe Sun, 19 April 1794.