1. On the third reading of the bill, on 21 May 1845, Peel found his party split 148–149 against his proposal. For a detailed chronology of events see G.I.T. Machin, ‘The Maynooth Grant, the Dissenters and Disestablishment, 1845–1847’, English Historical Review, 82 (1967), pp. 61–85.
2. On the split between No-Popery and voluntarism in the opposition ranks, see Gilbert A. Cahill, ‘The Protestant Association and the Anti-Maynooth Agitation of 1845’ The Catholic Historical Review, 43, 3 (Oct. 1957), pp. 273–308. For details on this ‘loose alliance of Voluntary Dissenters, Anglican Evangelicals, Wesleyan Methodists, Free Church Scots and High Anglicans’ see
3. Stewart J. Brown, The National Churches of England, Ireland and Scotland, 1801–46 (Oxford, 2001), p. 375.
4. E.g. R. Windscheffel, Reading Gladstone (London, 2008), pp. 131–59;
5. Eugenio Biagini, British Democracy and Irish Nationalism, 1876–1906 (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 17–18.