1. John Marsh, 1795, Brian Robins (ed.), The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (Stuyvesant NY: Pergamon, 1998), 575–80.
2. For a more detailed discussion of Marsh’s journals and his varied accomplishments and interests see John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (London: Harper Collins, 1997), 531–72.
3. R.J. Morris, ‘Voluntary Societies and British Urban Elites, 1780–1850’, The Historical Journal, 26, 1 (1983), 95–118.
4. See Jon Newman, ‘”An Insurrection of Loyalty”: The London Volunteer Regiments’ Response to the Invasion Threat’, in Mark Philp (ed.), Resisting Napoleon: The British Response to the Threat of Invasion (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), 75–91, 81.
5. J.R. Western, The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century: The Story of a Political Issue, 1660–1802 (London: Routledge, 1965), 127–61.