1. For reasons of brevity, I have omitted any reference to shipping in this chapter, but see the summaries in; J. Armstrong and P. Bagwell ‘Coastal shipping’, in D. H. Aldcroft and M. J. Freeman (eds.), Transport in the Industrial Revolution, (Manchester, 1973), pp. 142–76; P. J. Bagwell, J. Armstrong ‘Coastal Shipping’, in M. J. Freeman and D. H. Aldcroft (eds.), Transport in Victorian Britain, (Manchester, 1988); P. S. Bagwell, The Transport Revolution from 1770, (London, 1974), Chapter 3.
2. See, for example, the comments in H. J. Dyos and D. H. Aldcroft, British Transport. An Economic Survey from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth, (Leicester, 1969), p. 74.
3. K. Wrightson, English Society 1580–1680, (London, 1982); R. W. Malcolmson, Life and Labour in England 1700–1780, (London, 1981).
4. N. McKendrick, J. Brewer and J. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society. The Commercialisation of Eighteenth-Century England, (London, 1978). L. Weatherill, Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain 1660–1760, (London, 1988).
5. Dyos and Aldcroft, British Transport.