32. The Lamentation of Bristolia," BRL 25550; Broadside, 10 April 1786, BRL 13061; newspaper clipping 6 April 1786, BRL 11539; letter from "A Bridge Trustee" in Bristol Gazette, 24 October 1793; John Rose, "A Reply to a Bridge Trustee," [1793], BL.

33. Evidence of Hiscoxe, William Collins (Hiscoxe's assistant), and George Webb, Minutes of Committee for Investigating Bridge Affairs, 25 and 29 November 1793, BRL 13065; handbill by Hiscoxe, 29 September 1793, BRL 13084.

34. For the theory of the "legitimising notion' see E.P. Thompson, "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century," Past and Present (February 1971), pp. 76-79.