[Footnote: 40. Act of Henry the Eighth. Burke alludes to this in his letter to the sheriffs of Bristol in the following terms: "To try a man under this Act is to condemn him unheard. A person is brought hither in the dungeon of a ship hold; thence he is vomited into a dungeon on land, loaded with irons, unfurnished with money, unsupported by friends, three thousand miles from all means of calling upon or confronting evidence, where no one local circumstance that tends to detect perjury can possibly be judged of;--such a person may be executed according to form, but he can never be tried according to justice."] [Footnote: 41. correctly right. Explain.] [Footnote: 42. Paradise Lost, II., 392-394.] [Footnote: 43. This passage should be carefully studied. Burke's theory of government is given in the Conciliation by just such lines as these. Refer to other instances of principles which he considers fundamental in matters of government.] [Footnote: 44. exquisite. Exact meaning?] [Footnote: 45. trade laws. What would have been the nature of a change beneficial to the colonies?] [Footnote: 46. English conquest. At Henry II.'s accession, 1154, Ireland had fallen from the civilization which had once flourished upon her soil and which had been introduced by her missionaries into England during the seventh century. Henry II. obtained the sanction of the Pope, invaded the island, and partially subdued the inhabitants. For an interesting account of England's relations to Ireland the student should consult Green's Short History of the English People.] [Footnote: 47. You deposed kings. What English kings have been deposed?] [Footnote: 48. Lords Marchers. March, boundary. These lords were given permission by the English kings to take from the Welsh as much land as they could. They built their castles on the boundary line between the two countries, and when they were not quarrelling among themselves waged a guerilla warfare against the Welsh. The Lords Marchers, because of special privileges and the peculiar circumstances of their life, were virtually kings--petty kings, of course.] [Footnote: 49. "When the clear star has shone upon the sailors, the troubled water flows down from the rocks, the winds fall, the clouds fade away, and, since they (Castor and Pollux) have so willed it, the threatening waves settle on the deep."--HORACE, Odes, I., 12, 27-32.] [Footnote: 50. Opposuit natura. Nature opposed.] [Footnote: 51. no theory. Select other instances of Burke's impatience with fine-spun theories in statescraft] [Footnote: 52. Republic of Plato Utopia of More Ideal states Consult the Century Dictionary] [Footnote: 53. "And the DULL swain Treads daily on it with his clouted shoon" --MILTON'S Comus, 6, 34, 35.]