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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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