Edmondson, Joseph. The present peerages: with plates of arms, and an introduction to heraldry ; together with several useful lists incident to the work. Printed for J. Dodsley. 1785.
A volume of Dashwood's correspondence extending from 1747 to 1781 is in Egerton MS. 2136, and letters from him to Wilkes are in Addit. MS. 30867. See also Journals of the Lords and Commons;
Official Return of Members of Parl.;
Old Parliamentary History;
Lists of Sheriffs, P.R.O.;
Horace Walpole's Letters, ed. Cunningham, vols. i-v. and vii., Memoirs of George II, ed. Lord Holland, and of George III, ed. Barker;
Wraxall's Hist. and Posthumous Mem., ed. Wheatle;
Almon's Mem. and Corresp. of John Wilkes, ed. 1805;
Bubb Dodington's Diary, ed. 1809, passim;
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters;
Chesterfield's Letters;
Boswell's Johnson, ed. Hill;
Charles Johnston's Chrysal, 1768;
Churchill's Poems, The Ghost and the Candidate;
Bedford Correspondence;
Thomson's Hist, of the Royal Soc.;
Nichols's Lit. Anecdotes, viii. 236, ix. 454 (where he is confused with Thomas Stapleton, his successor in the barony);
Mahon's Hist, of England;
Leeky's Hist, of England;
Lipscomb's Buckinghamshire;
Collinson's Somerset;
Doran's 'Mann' and Manners at the Court of Florence;
Cust's History of the Dilettanti Society, 1898, passim;
Courthope's, Burke's, and G. E. Cokayne's Complete Peerages.