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- ↑ Minchinton, Waiter Edward (1963). Politics and the Port of Bristol in the eighteenth century: The petitions of the society of Merchant Venturers,1698-1803 (PDF). Bristol: Bristol Record Society.
- 1 2 Dresser, Madge; Hann, Andrew (2013). Slavery and the British Country House. Swindon: English Heritage.
- ↑ Richardson, David (1985). The Bristol slave traders : a collective portrait (PDF). Bristol: Bristol Branch of the Historical Association. ISBN 9780901388438.