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1. References to quotations from Burke's writings and speeches have not been given, in order to save space, if the source is obvious, i.e. where quotation is made from a well-known work identified in the text.
2. Though he does appear in encyclopaedias, see e.g. Freeman, M., 1992.
3. Burke to Richard Shackleton, 21 March, 1747, Copeland, T.W., 1958-78, vol.i, p.89.
4. Burke to John S. Bowen, 1 October 1786, Copeland, T.W., 1958-78, vol.x, p.19.
5. Burke, draft letter to William Markham, after 9 November 1771, Copeland, T.W., 1958-78, vol.ii., pp.253, 268.
6. Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1923-4, 1924-9, 1935-7. For Baldwin's outstanding political skill, of which his bucolic and domestic persona was part, see Williamson, P., 1999.
7. A well-chosen selection of caricatures is in Robinson, N.K., 1996.
8. Sir William Blackstone, in Hull & Temperley, eds, 1911-12: p.569 (contractions expanded).
9. Second Earl of Buckinghamshire, memorandum on commencement of the American Rebellion, Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1905: p.291.
10. speech of 18 April 1794, reported in The Sun, 19 April 1794.
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