1. D. Rollison, The Local Origins of Modern Society: Gloucestershire 1500–1800 (London, 1992), 55.
2. G. E. Mingay, English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1963), 25.
3. P. Langford, Public Life and the Propertied Englishman 1689–1798 (Oxford, 1991);
4. E. Hart, Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World (Charlottesville and London, 2010), 114.
5. Wilson and Mackley note that historians of landownership such as J. V. Beckett have paid comparatively little attention to the actual building of houses and their landscapes, see R. Wilson and A. Mackley, Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House, 1660–1880 (London, 2000), 247, fn 20.