The footnotes are as in the original booklet of 1991, except for a very few updates in 2004 about the location of the records etc.
For a description of the legal records used, and their contents, see J. Gyford, dissertation, Appendix 2.
Abbreviations:
| BL | British Library |
| ERO | Essex Record Office |
| J Gyford, dissertation | J Gyford, Men of Bad Character: Property Crime in Essex in the 1820s, (Essex University MA dissertation, 1982) |
| PP | Parliamentary Papers |
| PRO | Public Record Office (now, 2004, known as TNA, The National Archives) |
| The tithe map | ERO D/CT 405A and 405B, Witham tithe map and award, 1839 |