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- 1 2 Donald Read (1958). Peterloo: The 'Massacre' and its Background. p. 75.
- ↑ John Edward Taylor (1820). Notes and Observations, Critical and Explanatory, on the Papers Relative to the Internal State of the Country.
- ↑ Chronology for the Salford Hundred: 1838
- ↑ Edward Baines (1836). History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. Vol. III. p. 489.