Books of this age do not have a bibliography in the same way as today's books do. Instead, sources used are found either in a preface or as a footnote on a page. Rev. Davies often abbreviated the source.

• In the Preface, Davies states that he has used "Mr. Pilkington's valuable History ... as a text book" and it was his main source of material. Whilst he does not say which edition he consulted, he either used:
  
  Pilkington, James of Derby (1789) "A View of the present state of Derbyshire; with an account of its most remarkable antiquites, etc., Derby : J. Drewry.
  
  Or the early nineteenth century update:
  Pilkington, James of Derby (1803) A view of the present state of Derbyshire ... The natural history of the medicinal waters of Buxton and Matlock, By Erasmus Darwin. 2nd ed, Derby: William Marriott.
  
  
• Domesday references.
  "The ancient names of places are printed in italics, and are, chiefly taken from" A Translation of the Record called Domesday ... by William Bawdwen.
  Davies described the work as "lately published".
  
  

Other works:

• Aitken's History of the County Around Manchester
• Archaeologia (Several Volumes incl. VI & XII)
• T Blore FSA: History of the Manor and Manor House of South Winfield
• Bray's Tour into Derbyshire
• Britannia
• John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley: The Beauties of England and Wales, Vol.3
  Matlock extracts
• Butcher, Edmund (1805) Excursion from Sidmouth to Chester
• Dugdale's Baron Vol I
• Fuller's Church History Vol I
• Gibson's Camden
• Gibson's Saxon Chronicles
• Guthrie, William A New system of modern geography ...
• Hume Vol I
• Hutton's History of Derbyshire
• Hutchinson's Tour Through the High Peak
• Lipscombe's Matlock
• Mawe's Mineralogy of Matlock
• Pegge, Samuel, A.M. (1769) The Roman roads, Ikenild-Street and Bath-Way, discovered and investigated through the country of the Coritani, or the county of Derby
• Reports to the Board of Agriculture [these were probably Farey's Reports, published the same year]
• Robertson, William, Charles V
• Stowe's Annals
• Topographer Vol II
• Warner's Northern Tour
• Whitehurst's Theory
• Wonders of the Peak - pub 1681
  
  

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