Parliament for Bristol', 1955, in the library of the Institute of
Historical Research, London. The Institute also enabled me to
read the thesis, 'The Religious Ideas of Edmund Burke', 1947,
by the late Dr. L. D. Cowley. I particularly wish to thank Dr.
J. F. Lively, Ph.D. ( 'Ideas of Parliamentary Representation in
England, 1815-32', Cambridge, 1957) and Mr. M. B. Whittaker,
M.Litt. ( 'The Revival of Protestant Dissent', Cambridge, 1959),
for allowing me to read and quote from their theses. Mr.
Whittaker's work, when published, will add much to the picture
of the struggles for religious toleration of Protestant Dissenters
in the early nineteenth century.

I am especially indebted to Dr. Geoffrey Best, Ph.D., a good
deal of whose work I unwittingly duplicated. His thesis,
'Church and State in English Politics', Cambridge, 1955,
showed me the importance of the High Church view of the
Alliance of Church and State in the first quarter of the nineteenth
century. If I disagree with some of his conclusions (not his
facts), reading his thesis and published articles helped me to
clear my own mind; and nineteenth-century supporters of
toleration would point out that truth is the product of the clash
of opinions.

I am grateful to Manchester University for the Research
Studentship which made possible all the basic work, and to
Bedford College, London University, for the Tutorial Fellow-
ship which enabled me to turn my thesis into a book. Dr. Robert
Greaves of Bedford College has given most valuable help in
reading the MS, and pointing out some of the worst errors of
terminology and faults of style. Miss Jean Cunningham and
Mr. P. A. Brunt have given me much help with the proofs.

I should like above all to thank Professor A. Goodwin of
Manchester University, whose unfailing kindness and encour-
agement as supervisor enabled me to finish anything at all.

U. R. Q. HENRIQUES

University College of South Wales
and Monmouthshire, Cardiff.
June 196I

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