1. Thomas Whitehead, Original Anecdotes of the Late Duke of Kingston (Bath, 1792), 119.
2. Claire Gervat, Elizabeth: The Scandalous Life of the Duchess of Kingston (London: Century, 2003), 109.
3. Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century (London: Allen Lane, 1982), 57.
4. See Lawrence Stone, Road to Divorce: England 1530–1987 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), 143–148.
5. Stone, Road to Divorce, 40; John R. Gillis, For Better, For Worse: British Marriages 1600 to the Present (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), 99.