2 Peter Laslett, “Sir Robert Filmer: The Man versus the Whig Myth,” WMQ3 5 (1948), 545.
3 Bamford, ed., A Royalist’s Notebook, 132.
4 William Byrd II to Mrs. Anne Taylor Otway, 30 June 1736, Tinling, ed., Three William Byrds, I, 482.