14. Letters of Sir William Codrington to the Duke of Newcastle, 21 July 1731 and 11 August 1735, and affidavits, PRO, SP 36/23 and SP 36/35: Colliers' Letter to the Turnpike, 3 July 1727, Gloucester Record Office, D/15/2, also quoted in William Albert, The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840 (1972), pp. 27-28; Journals of the House of Commons, XXI, 828 (2 March 1731 O.S.).

15. British Library (hereafter BL), 1865 c.7 (30) and PRO SP 36/111.

16. Mayor Weekes to Newcastle, 1 August 1749, PRO, SP 36/111; Seyer, Memoirs, II, 594-95; John Evans, A Chronological Outline of the History of Bristol... (Bristol, 1824), pp. 269-70.

17. Letters of 5 August and 15 September 1749, PRO, SP 36/111.