1. See Norman Sykes, Edmund Gibson (London: Oxford University Press, 1926), pp. 122–82; Stephen Taylor, “Sir Robert Walpole, the Church of England and the Quakers’ Tithe Bill of 1736,” in Historical Journal, 28 (1985), pp. 51–77; Stephen Taylor, “Queen Caroline and the Church of England,” in Hanoverian Britain and Empire, ed. Stephen Taylor, Richard Connors, and Clyve Jones (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1998), pp. 82–101.
2. Edmund Gibson, The Bishop of London’s Three Pastoral Letters (London, 1732).
3. See Frank E. Manuel, Isaac Newton. Historian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963), pp. 21–36; Karin Figala, “Ein Exemplar der Chronologie von Newton aus dem Besitz von Pierre Des Maizeaux in der Bibliothèque de la Ville de Colmar,” in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel, 84 (1973), pp. 646–97; Blandine Kriegel, “Nicolas Fréret chronologiste,” in Nicolas Fréeret, légende et vérité, ed. Chantal Grell and Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1994), pp. 89–108; Nicolas Fréret, Défense de la chronologie fondée sur les monumens de ľhistoire ancienne, [ed. J.-P. de Bougainville] (Paris, 1758).
4. See Richard S. Westfall, Never at Rest (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), pp. 815–20, 872–3; Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem, MS Yahuda Var. 1/ (Yah. Ms.) 7.2b, fols 1–9 and 7.2j, fols 1–139; Yah. Mss 7.1, 7.2, and parts of 7.3 contain drafts which relate to the preparation of the book, see also Cambridge University Library (CUL), MS Add. 3989 (3); some surviving proof sheets can be found in the Hampshire County Record Office, Winchester, MS NC 10.
5. Westfall, Never at Rest, p. 817.