23. Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 2 June and 8 September l753.

24. Letter of Attorney General to Newcastle, 2 June 1753, PRO, SP 36/122; and Hugh Valence Jones to Newcastle, 2 June 1753, BL, Add. Mss. 32732.

25. W.E. Minchinton, "Bristol -- Metropolis of the West in the Eighteenth Century," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th Series, Vol. IV (1954); Peter T. March, "Bristol's Roads and Communications on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution," Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 87 (1968), 149-72.