1. M. Ogborn (2002) ‘Wherein Lay the Late Seventeenth-Century State? Charles Davenant Meets Streynsham Master’, Journal of Historical Sociology 15, 96–101, passim.
2. P. Harling and P. Mandler (1993) ‘From “Fiscal-Military” State to Laissez-Faire State, 1760–1850’, The Journal of British Studies 32 (1), 47, 53–6.
3. The term ‘patrimonialism’ is Weberian in origin and denotes the organisation of government ‘as a directed extension of the royal household’ (R. Bendix (1960) Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait (London: Doubleday and Co.), p. 119, n. 7).
4. For a luller discussion, see E.W. Cohen (1941) The Growth of the British Civil Service, 1780–1939 (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd).
5. P.J. Jupp (1990) ‘The Landed Elite and Political Authority in Britain, ca. 1760–1850’, Journal of British Studies 29, 55–65.