1.  "The English people think that they are free, but in this belief they are profoundly wrong.

2.  In order to enslave the English people, we might argue, it is only necessary to enslave them at election time: once in four years Is enough.

3.  If this should happen, and the long-suppressed voice of moderate, long-suffering English people should be heard at last, that voice might well be captured, taken over and perverted by genuine "extremists" and "fascists" for abhorrent and evil purposes.

4.  Add to this the fact that our universities and practically all our major cultural institutions are run by English people, and that many of the executive posts in local government and other organisations are occupied by them, and it will be clear that Scotland is rapidly being colonised, indeed being turned into an extension of England.

5.  I realise that the situation must be uncomfortable for some English people in Scotland, but then they have a ready solution.

6.  They feel a sense of outrage like English people and they feel guilt over all this.

7.  As Nancy led Molly into the garden she said, "There are a whole lot of English people here, the local inhabitants.

8.  How many English people, let alone a wider audience, have ever heard of this particular affray?

9.  Many Italians changed their names to English versions - or had them changed by English people who couldn't pronounce Italian ones.

10.  Dress underwrites not only class differences but national and racial ones also, and Perkins has harsh words for those who adopt the fashion of other countries: "this one sinne is so common among us, that it hath branded our English people with the blacke mark of the vainest and most newfangled people under heaven" (p. 211).