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342	10	'more rhetoric' should apparently read 'mere
		rhetoric'.

352	16	'He appears to have ordered' For 'He' read
		'Oliver' seeing that the preceding sentence
		refers to Wellington.

355	11	'It was a dogma of the elder liberalism
	from foot	that violence can never achieve anything, and
		that persecution, so far from killing a thing,
		must inevitably nourish it. For such optimism
		there is no warrant in history; time and
		again violence has wholly achieved its purpose,
		when it has been carried to its logical
		conclusion.' This does not in terms seem
		quite to harmonise with the statement on

360	17	'he might defend the sword as the sword of
	from foot	justice and of the Lord, but he knew well
		in his heart that no polity of which it was
		the main instrument could endure. // It is
		submitted that something should be done to
		satisfy the reader that the intentions of
		these two passages are not inconsistent.

360	13	'The new regime was not only arbitrary and
	from foot	unpopular, it was not really efficient.'
		This refers to the year 1650 and yet, on

326	1,	dealing with only a previous year, it is said
		'There was a rigid press censorship, a
		comprehensive system of espionage, and harsh
		punishment of deliquents, but it may fairly
		be said that the work of the new constitution-
		makers was efficient.' which seems hardly
		consistent, unless it refers to the making of
		the constituion and not to its administration,
		which does not seem to be intended. It is
		suggested that the two paragraphs might somehow
		be harmonised by a slight amendment.

390	8	'had in better wine'. This presumably means
	from foot	'had better wine sent in' but it seems a
		little obscure to an ordinary English reader.

442	7	'equity law', It is suggested, should read
	from foot	'equity as a legal system', because equity in
		English jurisprudence is a term used in contradistinction
		to 'law'.

448	10	For 'He' read 'we'
	from foot

494	6	'herself' appears wrong. If the reference
	from foot	is to Blake should 'herself ' not read ' himself',?
		and if it is to England then
		should not 'English flag' read 'flag of England'?

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