an important addition to the genre ... David Hayton is ideally qualified to bring this diary to press and his editing is excemplary. A lengthy introduction, written with characteristic poise and wit, provides a context for the diary ... The diary itself is meticulously presented and superbly footnoted. Hayton has spared no effort, and the Clarendon Press has done him and Cocks proud ... given the quality of Hayton's edition and the strength of Cocks' view no
political or intellectual historian of the period can afford to ignore the bucolic baronet.