page 1 note 1) For this pamphlet and its writer vide: International Review for Social History, Vol. I, pp. 217 ff., William Benbow's Grand National Holiday and Congress of the Productive Classes. With an Introduction by Dr. A. J. C. Rüter.xGoogle Scholar

page 1 note 2) The Quarterly Journal of Economics, VoL XXXV, pp. 491 ff.Google Scholar

page 2 note 1) The “Explanations”, which form the introduction to this pamphlet, are dated December 18, 1820. The size Is quarto, it contains 24 pp.

page 3 note 1) 28 pp., quarto.

page 4 note 1) The International Institute possesses the ninth edition of this pamphlet.

page 6 note 1) VIII and 36 pp.; quarto; Six pages, paginated separately, have been added to it, containing an Alphabetical Index to those Peers, who are accused of interfering in the Election of Members for the People's House; With the Sums said in the “Peep at the Peers” to be enjoyed by them and their families, out of the LABOUR of the INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES of the Community, independent of, and in addition to the immense landed revenues of the Nobility, estimated by Coiquhoun at £5.901.480, for 570 persons, which would average £10.853 each!! Whereas, according to the same author, the whole income of 2.808.925 families of the Industrious Classes is estimated only at £80 each family, consisting of five persons, or 16 pounds per head.

page 12 note 1) Vide p. 9.

page 12 note 2) Grand National Holiday and Congress of the Productive Classes, pp. 5 ff.Google Scholar

page 12 note 3) Ibid., p. 6.

page 13 note 1) 42 pp., quarto.

page 13 note 2) Dictionary of National Biography, VoL LVIII, pp. 298ff.

page 13 note 3) 3 volumes, London 1643—1646.

page 13 note 4) Halkett, S. and Laing, J., Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English Literature. Edinburgh-London 1926—1934, Vol. II, p. 161.Google Scholar