1. George Macaulay Trevelyan, _England Under Queen Anne_ (London:
Longmans, Green and Co., 1948), III, 68.
2. These are Trevelyan's figures (_op. cit._, 73). W. A. Speck (_Tory
and Whig_ [London: Macmillan, 1970], p. 123) gives the Tories 332 seats
and 181 seats to the Whigs in this election.
3. In point of fact, Harley's concern for the loyalty of the
representative peers is unique in the history of these elections. In
subsequent Parliaments, the Scottish peers seldom, if ever, voted
against the Government--even at the trial of Lord Lovat in 1745-6. For
one thing, almost without exception, the representative peers were
dependent on governmental subsidies and this dependence increased
during the course of the eighteenth century (see J. H. Plumb, _The
Growth of Political Stability in England_ [London: Penguin, 1973], p.
180; and Geoffrey Holmes, _British Politics in the Age of Anne_
[London: Macmillan, 1967], p. 393). The practice of electing a
representative peerage for Scotland was discontinued after 1782 (see
Trevelyan, _op. cit._, 235).