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^{page 144 note 1} For Clementson's part in the episode see Thomas, P. D. G., ‘John Wilkes and the Freedom of the Press (1771)’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, xxxiii (1960), pp. 87, 91.Google Scholar

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^{page 147 note 1} This disturbance arose because an administration supporter took the unusual and perhaps unprecedented step of insisting on a division against the wishes of the minority. For the incident see my The House of Commons in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1971), p. 256.Google Scholar

^{page 149 note 1} Clementson added a footnote. ‘This is altered. Vide resolution of 16 March 1772.’ See infra, pp. 155–6Google Scholar. In the text he inserted this doubt. ‘Query if he kneels unless the Order is to be reprimanded on his knees.’

^{page 150 note 1} Clementson has ‘Counsel’ or ‘Counsellors’ throughout.

^{page 152 note 1} Omitted by Clementson.

^{page 153 note 1} For this episode, see Henry Cavendish's diary. British Museum, Egerton MS. 222, pp. 355–63 (third pagination).

^{page 153 note 2} Clementson has 9 December. For the incident see the sources listed in Thomas, P. D. G., Sources for Debates of the House of Commons 1768–1774, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Special Supplement no. 4 (1959), p. 28.Google Scholar

^{page 153 note 3} Omitted by Clementson.

^{page 154 note 1} Pages 27–30 of the MS. are omitted. They merely comprise extracts from the Commons Journals of 4 and 14 April 1707 and 22 December 1711 concerning resolutions by the House relating to the enforcement of fees by the Serjeant at Arms from persons ordered into custody. See Commons Journals, xv, pp. 376, 386 Google Scholar; xvii, p. 23.

^{page 154 note 2} A Committee appointed to inquire into the fees of the Serjeant and messengers made its report to the House that day: but the House overruled its recommendations and established the fees stated by Clementson. Commons Journals, xxv, pp. 170–1.Google Scholar

^{page 155 note 1} Page 33 of the MS. is omitted, as being an extract from the Commons Journals for 21 December 1640 concerning the treatment and behaviour of the Lord Keeper when he then addressed the House. Commons Journals, ii, p. 55.Google Scholar

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^{page 157 note 1} By 107 votes to 57.

^{page 157 note 2} Omitted by Clementson.

^{page 157 note 3} By 117 votes to 51. For the report and proceedings thereon see Commons Journals, xxxiii, pp. 679–82.Google Scholar

^{page 157 note 4} This is an extract from Commons Journals, xxxiii, p. 690.Google Scholar

^{page 158 note 1} Page 44 of the MS. is blank.

^{page 162 note 1} Edward Thurlow and Alexander Wedderburn.

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^{page 162 note 3} The voting-figures were 9–23. Commons Journals, xxxv, p. 59 Google Scholar. The quorum of the House was 40.

^{page 163 note 1} Commons Journals, xxxv, p. 62 Google Scholar. Clementson omitted the figures.

^{page 163 note 2} Clementson has 19 January. The Queen's real birthday was on 18 May, but it was officially celebrated on 18 January. Brooke, J., King George III (London, 1972), p. 290.Google Scholar

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