Excerpt from Church and State in England in the Xviiith CenturyFrom Professor G. M. Trevelyan I have received a host of kindnesses too numerous to mention and bestowed with prodigal generosity from the time of my acceptance of the office of Birkbeck Lecturer until now.I Since this preface was written, Dr H. J. White has died in July 1934.I am especially grateful for his criticism of the lectures upon delivery, for his reading of part of my manuscript, and for his help in negotiation with the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press. Sir Charles Firth has continued to me the privilege of access to his counsel and library, and has helped me much by his advice and comments. If Canon E. W. Watson should recognise in the ensuing pages frequent echoes of his words spoken both in lectures and private discussion, I hope he will receive them as tokens of gratitude and perhaps also as evidence that his pains bestowed upon a former student have not been wholly in vain. To Professor L. B. Namier I am indebted for occasions of discussion of the labyrinthine policies and exhaustive correspondence of the duke of Newcastle, and for the avidity of appetite which has enabled him to sustain even the ecclesiastical divagations of his grace's career.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.