His mission was, he said, to restore the land to the people, to take it away, that is to say, from the great rascal families of the sixteenth century, the Russells, Cavendishes and so forth, who had appeared like vermin to feed upon the dead body of the Church, to gorge themselves upon her lands and to lord it in her Abbeys and Priories.

Gowers, Howards, Cavendishes, Grosvenors, Russells, and Harcourts, who walk on the face of the earth.

Contents:The Hereditary Principle; Aristocracy and DemocracyCharles Brandon's Widow and her Second MarriageThe Lady Mary GreySir Robert DudleyBess of Hardwick and the TalbotsThe Cavendishes and the StanhopesLord Pembroke and Sir Richard WhartonThe Wharton and Stuart DuelThe Bruce and Sackville DuelThe Lord Crichton of SanquaharThe Earldom of Monteith, &c. &c. &c. London: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 186.