[2] My friend, Professor Bonney, kindly refers me to Conybeare and Philips' Outlines of Geology of England and Wales, p. 13, where there is an account of certain beds of lignite, or imperfect coal, in the neighbourhood of Poole. They burn with an odour of bitumen, and, no doubt, misled my great-grandfather. Geology was not even outlined in those days.
[3] 'Parleyings with Certain People'—Works (1889) xvi. 148-160.
[4] See Dictionary of National Biography.
[5] Redgrave's Dictionary of Painters.
[6] I have copies of two pamphlets in which these proceedings are described:—One is entitled 'Considerations on Imprisonment for Debt, fully proving that the confining of the bodies of debtors is contrary to Common Law, Magna Charta, Statute Law, Justice, Humanity, and Policy; and that the practice is more cruel and oppressive than is used in the most arbitrary kingdoms in Europe, with an account of various applications, &c.; by James Stephen, 1770.' The other pamphlet, to which is prefixed a letter by W. Jackson, reprints some of Stephen's letters from the New Jail, wants a title and is imperfect. See also the Annual Register for 1770 (Chronicle), November 19, for 1771 (Chronicle), January 31.
[7] That mentioned in the previous note. See also the 'Chronicle' of the Annual Register for November 19, 1770, and January 31 and November 2, 1771.
[8] The children were William and James (already mentioned); Sibella, born about 1765, afterwards married to William Maxwell Morison, editor of Decisions of Court of Session (1801-1818); Hannah, born about 1767, afterwards married to William Farish (1759-1837), Jacksonian professor at Cambridge; Elizabeth, born about 1769, afterwards married to her cousin, William Milner, of Comberton, near Cambridge; and John, born about 1771.
[9] The parish register records his burial on September 9, 1779.
[10] See the trial reported by Gurney in 21 State Trials, pp. 486-651. It lasted from 8 a.m. on Monday till 5.15 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
[11] See Slavery Delineated (preface to vol. i.), where other revolting details are given.