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* Bath City Record Office, Bath and West Archives, 
Rules 1777, p. v 
4© SF, 2793, 19 Dec. 1791 
47 SF, 3582, 17 Dec. 1804 
48 SF, 2742, 27 Dec. 1790 
*” T. Davis, General View of the Agriculture of Wiltshire 
(1794), p. 53 
°° For Ingen Hausz, see N. and E. Beale, ‘Looking for Dr. 
Ingen Hausz’, WANHM, Vol. 93 (2000), pp. 120-130 
>! The Encyclopaedia Britannica was published in 1771 
>» Quoted in M. L. Espinasse, “The Decline and Fall of 
Restoration Science’, Past and Present, no. XIV, 
(1958), p. 76 
> T. Gisborne, An Enquiry into the Duties of Men, (1794), p. 
416 
+ DG. , 321, 28 Feb. 1822; B(ath) H(erald), 150, 10 Jan. 
1795; SF. , 2933, 25 Aug. 1794 
> WANHSL, Box 223, MS. 2497 
°° Amelia Anstie to Samuel Anstie, 28 Jan. 1799: 
Elizabeth Cunnington, “The Cunnington Family 
History’ (typescript study 1978), p. 117. The orrery or 
microcosm was a_ clockwork-driven model 
planetarium devised by George Graham FRS (1673- 
1751) and named in honour of Charles Boyle, 4th 
Earl of Orrery (1676-1731) 
7 SF. 2400, 7 June 1784 
* The Ladies’ Library, (Sth edn. 1739), Vol. 1, p. 17 
°°? W SRO, Cons. S. will 1687 
° For more information on late eighteenth century music 
in southern Enngland, see J. S$. Bromley, ‘Britain in 
Europe in the Eighteenth Century’, History, Vol. 
LXVI (1981), pp. 394-412; R. Dunhill, ‘Handel and 
the Harris Circle’, Hampshire Papers, no. 8 (1985); B. 
Robins, ‘Eighteenth Century Catch Clubs in 
Salisbury and Southern England’, Hatcher Review, 
Vol. V, no. 49, pp. 34-46 
*! Benjamin Anstie to Samuel Anstie, 6 May 1799: 
Elizabeth Cunnington, ‘The Cunnington Family 
History’, p. 114 
6 Amelia Anstie to Samuel Anstie, 29 Feb. 1804: ibid, p. 
115 
63 SF, 2793; 19 Dec. 1791 
° DG. , 278, 26 April 1821 
® DG. , 321, 28 Feb. 1822 
6 SF. , 3893, 23 Sept. 1811 
67 WSRO, 1553/68, William Hunt’s notebook 1726-1742 
68 Elizabeth Blackburn’s journal 
° WANHSL, Box 328, MS. 2605, George Sloper’s diary 
7 J. Waylen, Chronicles of the Devizes (1839), p. 272 
| The singing of catches and glees was given impetus in 
the eighteenth century by the establishment in 
London of the Nobleman and Gentleman’s Catch 
Club in 1761, inspired by the revival of interest in 
Elizabethan and Jacobean madrigals 
”? A. Cooper, ‘Benjamin Banks, the Salisbury Violin 
Maker’, The Hatcher Review, Vol. 3, no. 29, (1990), pp. 
449-458 
3 SF. 4252, 24 Aug. 1818 
 H. Chapone, Letters on Improvement of the Mind , 
Addressed to a Young Lady (177331818 edn. ) , p. 193 
> G(loucestershire) R(ecord) O(ffice), D1571, F641, 
James Sutton’s household accounts 1765-1791 
7° WSRO, G20/6/1, Devizes Mercers Company records 
7” WANHSL, c/4/7-8 
78 SF. 2589, 21 Jan. 1788 
” SF, 2703, 29 March 1790 
8° C. B. Hogan, ‘The ms. of Winston’s Theatric Tourist’, 
Theatre Notebook, Vol. 1, (1947), p. 89 
81 $F, 2798, 23 Jan. 1792 
a2 Sif, 2797/5 Loans 17.92 
83 SF, 2814, 14 May 1792 
 WSRO, 1090/52/1-2, Stephen Hillman’s ledgers, Vol. 2, 
insert note 
> WANHSL, W. C. Vol. 6, p. 29 
86 J. Waylen, “TheWilts County Court’, WANHM, Vol. 
XXVII (1893), p. 116 
*” WANHSL, Box 328, MS. 2605, George Sloper’s diary 
88 Anon, A Genealogical Account of the Mayo and Elton 
families of Wilts and Herefordshire (2nd edn. 1907), p. 
164 
8 DG. 223, 6 April 1820 
° WANHSL, W. C. , Vol. 13, p. 258 
*\'T. Gisborne, An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex 
(1797), p. 196 
* WANHSL, c/3/100 
* E. Gibbon, Autobiography and Correspondence, ed. A 
Murray (1865), p. 62 
* J. Russell (ed. ), Thomas Moore, Memoirs, Fournal and 
Correspondence (1860), p. 197 
® Billhead in Goddard scrapbook, Salisbury Museum 
* Jane Estcourt to Eleanor Sutton, May 1800 : GRO, 
D1571, F207 
” Eleanor Sutton to daughter Eleanor, 17 Aug. 1800: 
GRO, D1571, F349 
°8 GRO, D1571, F655, entertainment book 1773-1811 
°° GRO, D1571, F652, Eleanor Sutton’s recipe book 
100 GRO, D1571, F641, Sutton’s household accounts 1765- 
1791 
101 James Sutton to Henry Addington, n. d. : DRO, 152M/ 
1792/F12 
102 WANHSL, W. C. Vol 2, p. 172 
03 WANHSL, Box 328, MS. 2605, George Sloper’s diary 
104 W SRO, 1090/22, Bear Club dinner accounts 1809-1817 
105 WAS, Box 328, MS. 2605, George Sloper’s diary 
106 SF. 2631, 10 Nov. 1788 
107 SF , 2649, 16 March 1789 
108 William Salmon to Henry Addington, 17 Oct. 1797: 
DRO, Sidmouth Papers 152M/1797/OZ29 
109 WANHSL, Box 328, MS. 2605, George Sloper’s diary 
0 North Wilts Herald, 3981, 15 Oct. 1937 
11 SSG, 72, 15 May 1817 
12 $SG, 1, 4 Jan. 1816 
13 RH. Goldney, The Hisiory of Freemasonry in Wiltshire 
(1880), pp. 155-156 
4 DG. 390, 7 Aug. 1823. 
115 James Sutton to Henry Addington, 7 Nov. 1790 : DRO 
