Notes
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- Smiles S., Lives of the Engineers: Vermuyden, Myddelton, Perry, James Brindley (London: John Murray, 1904), p. 327.
- Hales S., A Description of Ventilators (London, 1743).
- Avray Tipping H., ‘Coleshill House’, Country Life, 26 July and 2 August 1919.
- Gunther R.T., The Architecture of Sir Roger Pratt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1928); Dictionary of National Biography, Compact Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975) (hereinafter DNB), Article on Sir Roger Pratt, p. 1704.
- Gunther, pp. 27, 63, 81.
- Sir Mark Pleydell, ‘Journal of the Mining at Coleshill’, Berks County Record Office, Reading, Pleydell-Bouverie Papers, D/EPb E33, April 1743, p. 1.
- Pleydell, pp. 2–3.
- Pleydell, pp. 12–13.
- Earl B., Cornish Mining (St Austell: Cornish Hillside Publications, 1994), pp. 42–43.
- Derry and Williams, p. 547.
- Pleydell, p. 20.
- Pryce W., Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise of Mines and Mining (London, 1778), p. 203.
- Pleydell, p. 3.
- Pryce, p. 147.
- Agricola G., De Re Metallica, trans. by H. C. Hoover and L. H. Hoover (New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1950, originally published 1556), p. 203.
- Hinsley F.B., ‘The Development of Coal Mine Ventilation in Great Britain up to the End of the Nineteenth Century’, Trans. Newcomen Society, xlii (London, 1969–70), 25–39.
- Warrington J, ed (ed.), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 2 (London: Everyman Library, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1906), 91 and 101.
- Pleydell, p. 5.
- Pleydell, p. 6.
- Pleydell, p. 20.
- Pleydell, p. 30.
- [Swindon] Evening Advertiser, Wednesday 24 September 1952, p. 1.
- DNB, Article on Stephen Hales, p. 867.
- Pleydell, pp. 23–24.
- Hales S., A Treatise on Ventilators (London, 1758).
- Pleydell, pp. 28–29.
- Hales, Treatise, p. 29.
- Hales, Treatise, pp. 131–39.
- Pleydell, p. 29.
- N. A. M. Rodger, The Wooden Walls: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1996), p. 107.
- Pleydell, p. 25.
- Pleydell, p. 28.
- Hales (1758), p. 1.
- Rankine W.J.M., Useful Rules and Tables Relating to Mensuration, Engineering, Structures, and Machines, rev. by W. J. Millar (London: Charles Griffin and Co., 1889).