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4. The Works of John Jebb, ed. J. Disney (1787), i. 148; H. Walpole, Journal of the Reign of King George III, ed. J. Doran (1859), ii. 364; Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, ed. Lord J. Russell (1853–7), i. 241; Westminster Committee of Association, BL Add. MS 38593, f. 16.
5. T. Oldfield, History of the Boroughs of Great Britain (1792), ii. 256; H. Butterfield, George III, Lord North and the People (1949), 227.