1. See D. Eastwood, ‘Robert Southey and the intellectual origins of Romantic Conservatism’, English Historical Review, CIV (1989), 308–331, esp. 311–320; John Stevenson, ‘William Cobbett: patriot or Briton?’ Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th Series, 6 (1996), 123–136, esp. 125–126, 128.
2. W.D. Rubinstein, Elites and the Wealthy in Modern British Society (Brighton: Harvester, 1987), pp. 129–132.
3. S.T. Coleridge, On the Constitution of the Church and State, in Colmer (ed.), The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (16 vols, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976), X, 68, 218.
4. J.G.A. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 218.
5. The pattern of landholding at the beginning of the period has been explored by G.E. Mingay, English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge and Paul, 1963).