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References
1 | Commons journals, vol. 29 (1761-1764), p.409. |
2 | 3 Geo. III c.34. |
3 | A. H. Dodd, 'The Roads of North Wales, 1750-1850,' Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1925, p.131. |
4 | This mileage has been calculated from the roads listed in the turnpike trusts' Acts of Parliament, but excludes those roads which appear - from the evidence of diaries, etc. kept by contemporary tourists, the 1794 Reports prepared for the Board of Agriculture, the minute books of various trusts, and the Report of the 1844 (Rebecca) Commissioners — never to have been taken over by the trusts. |
5 | 5 Geo. III c.76. |
6 | For a more detailed discussion of each of these trusts, vide David Williams,The Rebecca Riots (Cardiff, 1955), chapt. 6. |
7 | What does appear to have been of greater concern, in many instances, was that private property should be spared when a round-about way over waste uplands presented itself — vide Walter Davies, General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales, 1814, vol. ii, pp. 369-370. The only attempt which appears to have been made before the end of the 18th century to avoid steep gradients was by the Main Trust, whose trustees widened the road along Cwm Dwr during the 1780's so as to present the traveller with a much superior alternative to that across Trecastle Mountain. |
8 | Quoted in S. and B. Webb, The Story of the King's Highway, 1915, p.126. |
9 | J. Clark, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Brecknock, 1794, p.29; vide also Charles Hassall, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Carmarthen, 1794, pp.46-47. |
10 | Walter Davies, op. cit., vol. ii, pp.372-373. |
11 | Mrs. Morgan, A Tour to Milford Haven in the year 1791, (1795), pp.120-121. |
12 | J. Clark, op. cit., p.53. |
13 | Webbs, O. cit., p.132. |
14 | Walter Davies, op. cit., vol. ii, pp.381-382. |
15 | Webbs, op. cit., pp.135-138; W. T. Jackman, The Development of Transportation in Modern England, (1916), pp.239-241. |
16 | The figures are taken from the Commons Journals for the years of the renewal Acts. |
17 | This figure is taken from the Commons Journals for the year 1785, vol. 40, p.552, as the petition for the renewal Act was first presented in that year. |
18 | Commission of Inquiry for South Wales, 1844, Evidence, pp.14, 26, 96; Walter Davies, op. cit., vol. ii, pp.377-378. |
19 | Sir Thomas Stepney to William Clayton, M.P., London, 21 Feb. 1765, Cardiff Central Library, MS. 4833. |
20 | Kidwelly Trust Interest Books, T.T./17-20, at Carm. Record Office. |
21 | The figures are taken from the trust's Register of Tallies, 1767-1840, T.T./31, at Carm. Record Office. Note, however, that the table gives the dates of the issue of tallies. Such dates do not necessarily correspond with the dates on which the money was subscribed, as very often a considerable time lapsed between the date of the subscription and the issue of the tally. |
22 | T.T./29, at Carm. Record Office. |
23 | Llandeilo Rwnws Bridge Trust Minute Book, 1784-1805, T.T./25, at Carm. Record Office. |
24 | T.T./Box 6/Bundle 5, at Carm. Record Office; Cawdor Collection, 2/128, at Carm. Record Office. Unpaid interest amounting to £2,452 upon a tally of £1,654 was due to Earl Cawdor himself; Commission of Inquiry for South Wales, 1844, Evidence, p.46. |
25 | Parliamentary Papers, 1836 (2), xlvii, p.297. |
26 | D.T.M. Jones, MSS. 8803, 8880, 8966, 8989, 9089, 9207, 9234, 9307, and 9315, at N.L.W. |
27 | Llandeilo Rwnws Bridge Trust Minute Book, 1806-1845, T.T./26, at Carm. Record Office. |
28 | Kidwelly Trust Interest Books, 1779-1844, T.T./17-20, at Carm. Record Office. |
29 | In this instance, Half Toll applied to "Lime to be used for manure only." |
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