18. Journals of the House of Commons, XXVI, 280 (June 1751).

19. Latimer, Annals of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century, p. 275.

20. Ibid. pp. 166-67; Evans, Chronological Outline, p. 261.

21. A. Braine, The History of Kingswood Forest (Bath, 1969), pp. 224-26.

22. Letters of Mayor Clements to Newcastle, 21 May and 15 May 1753, and affidavit of John Hones, 21 May 1753, PRO, SP 36/122; Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 26 May 1753, lists the names of the captured rioters. Opposition to the export of grain was not unusual. Similar riots had occurred in other parts of the country -- R.B. Rose, "18th Century Price Riots and Public Policy in England," International Review of Social History, VI, 287 (1961).