And the sound instinct of Englishmen forbade them to blame men who, if rebels in law, were their firm friends in fact, for taking exceptional and even illegal measures, when all others failed, to preserve the full unity which they regarded as the fruit of that friendship.
FOOTNOTES: [41] See _Life of the Eighth Duke of Devonshire,_ by Bernard Holland, ii, pp.

249-51.
[42] _Life of Lord Randolph Churchill_, vol.ii, p.

65.
[43] _Annual Register_, 1912, p.

82.
[44] Bernard Holland's _Life of the Eighth Duke of Devonshire_, ii, 250.
[45] _The Times_, July 14th, 1913.
[46] Ibid., August 22nd, 1912.
[47] _Parliamentary Debates_ (House of Lords), July 15th, 1913..