1. Letter from Thomas Hughes to Henry Gould dated 9 October 1746, Somerset County Record Office (SRO) Quarter Sessions Rolls (QSR) 314/169.
2. JM Beattie,Crime and the Courts in England1660–1800 (Princeton University Press, Princeton 1986) 21.
3. Bath Journal 29 September 1746, p 111.
4. Deposition of Mary Hamilton, SRO QSR 314(172).
5. SRO QSR 314(172).