x.
and xi., on writers of this period; see also his articles on them in the
_Dict. of National Biography_. Church history is carefully treated by
ABBEY and OVERTON, _The English Church in the Eighteenth Century_, ed.
1887. For the administration of the criminal law--Major GRIFFITH,
_Chronicles of Newgate_, 2 vols., 1884. For prisons--JOHN HOWARD, _The
State of the Prisons_, 4th edit., 1792. For the police arrangements of
London--COLQUHOUN, _Treatise on the Police_, 1795.
On economic and industrial history the latest and best authority is Dr.
CUNNINGHAM, _Growth of English Industry and Commerce, Modern Times_,
pts. i. and ii., 2 vols., 1903. Other books used are CRAIK, in
_Pictorial History_ as above, republished in his _History of British
Commerce_, 1844; MACPHERSON, _Annals of Commerce_, 4 vols., 1805;
MCCULLOCH, edition of ADAM SMITH, _Wealth of Nations_, 1863; ROGERS,
_Six Centuries of Work and Wages_, 2 vols., 1884, and his _Industrial
and Commercial History of England_, lectures, 2 vols., 1898, and WARNER,
_Landmarks in English Industrial History_, 1899, a useful and
well-arranged little book. For the cotton manufacture--Sir E. BAINES,
_History of the Cotton Manufacture_, 1836. With reference to agriculture
and the poor--A. YOUNG, _Six Weeks' Tour in the Southern Counties_,
1769, and _Tour through the North_, 4 vols., 1770, present the condition
of agriculture at the time, with lists of wages and the expenses of the
labouring class; Rev. J. HOWLETT, pamphlets on the _Influence of
Enclosures_, 1786, and the _Causes of the Increase of the Poor_, 1786;
Mr. R. E. PROTHERO, _Pioneers and Progress of English Farming_, 1888, an
excellent account; Sir G. A. NICHOLLS, _History of the English Poor
Law_, 2 vols., 1898, and Mr. and Mrs. S. WEBB, _History of Trades
Unionism_, 1902.
[Asterism]: Dr. A. von Ruville's important and masterly work, _William
Pitt, Graf von Chatham_, 3 vols., Stuttgart and Berlin, 1905, appeared
while this book was in the press.
APPENDIX II.
ADMINISTRATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN, 1760-1801.[318]
1. NEWCASTLE, AS IN NOVEMBER, 1760.
_First ld. treasury_ D. of Newcastle.
{_s. dept._ Pitt.
_Secs. of state_ { E. of Egremont. _succ._ Oct., 1761.
{_n. dept._ E. of Holdernesse.
{ E. of Bute, _succ._ March, 1761.
_Ld. president_
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