American Independence and the French Revolution (1760-1801)

BELL’S ENGLISH HISTORY SOURCE BOOKS Scope of the Series and Arrangement of Volumes

INTRODUCTION

NOTE TO THIS VOLUME (1760-1801)

BRITISH VICTORIES—“A YOUNG MR. BURKE” (1761). Source.—Letters of Horace Walpole. Edited by P. Cunningham London: Bentley. Vol. iii., pp. 419-421. 1891. - To George Montagu, Esq., Strawberry Hill, July 22, 1761.

HONOURS FOR MR. PITT (1761). Source.—Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Vol. ii., pp. 146 et seq. London, 1838-1840. - The Earl of Bute to Mr. Pitt, October 6, 1761.

THE STATE OF THE PRISONS. Source.—Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield (Chap. XXVII.).

TOWNSHEND’S CONTUMACY (1767). Source.—Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Vol. iii., pp. 233 et seq. London, 1838-1840.

WILKES RIOTS (1768). Source.—Calendar of Home Office Papers, 1766-1769. Pp. 322, 323. London, 1879. - Robert Wood to Sir J. Fielding.

RIOTS IN THE NORTH (1768). Source.—Calendar of Home Office Papers, 1766-1769. Pp. 839, 840. London, 1879. - Duke of Northumberland to H.M.’s Principal Secretaries of State.

A PETITION TO GEORGE III. FROM THE FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX (1769). Source.—Letters of Junius. London: G. Bell and Sons. Vol. ii. 1911. - To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. The humble petition of the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex.