The Gentleman's Magazine gives much information, linking the family together in a useful way, but is sometimes incorrect in details.

Indices. 1. Index to the Obituary and Biographical notices in the Gentleman's Magazine, from May, 1721--1780, by R.H.Farrer, Pt. 1. (Index Society, London. 1886. 8vo.)

2. Musgraves Obituary of Gents. Mag. Annual Register, and London Magazine, up to 1800.

3. For later volumes, see individual indices in volumes. (4 in each)

Benjamin Bond and family. LXIV. Feb. 1794. p.184. LXIV. p.275. In both these notices John of Crutched Friars is wrongly given as John of Mitcham. Otherwise useful information. LXV. Pt. 2. Questions about our family and another one. p. 301. Ditto. p. 395. Answers to above. Big family not ours. See also 1788 & 1794.
LXVI. 1796. March, p. 261. Funeral notice and eulogy of George Bond, Kings Sergeant of the Inns of Court.
LXV. 1795. May. pp. 301 and 395. The Bond and Hopkins coats of arms, after being quartered, and I believe, altered.
LIII. 1783, April 20th.
LXIV. 1794. p. 1206. Pt 2. on Joseph Bond, cooper & a cousin.

1732. Pt.2. p.832. "Vulture" Hopkins will.
LVIII. p. 511, and LXIV, January 30., 1794, on Vulture Hopkins.

Old London Directories, at Guildhall Library.
Coker's Survey of Dorset. British Museum Library. 983 g 10.
Fulham Old and New. by C.T.Feret. Vol. 1. p.236. for Thomas Bond of Fulham.
British Museum, 10349 H 35.
Old and New London, by Walter Thornbury (co-author), Brit. Mus., for Fulham and Peckham Bonds, Crosby Hall, etc.
From Berkeley Square to Bond Street, by B.H. Johnson, for Peckham Bonds. Brit. Mus., 010349 u 10. Published 1952 by John Murray. (to go to Brit. Mus. Library, apply some time before for ticket).

Handbook of London Bankers, by F.G. Hilton Price, pub. 1898 by the Leadenhall Press. County Library, etc. This gives account of bank up to stopping payment. For paying off, the Institute of Bankers gave me information.

The Bonds of Earth, by Dr. Alan Kerr Bond, B.A., M.D., published by the Pegasus Press, 3104, Walbrook Avenue, Baltimore. 1930.

Haydn's Book of Dignities. Any public library.

The Heralds Visitations of London, Cornwall, Dorset, and Somerset. Brit. Mus. and many public libraries.

Survey of Cornwall., by G.S.Gilbert. 1820. Brit. Mus. 2965 d.

Annals of St. Helen's Bishopsgate.16 Guildhall Lib. (not Brit. Mus.) for merchant venturers and tombs.

The Dictionary of National Biography, at any public library, for Denis Bond, John Bond L.L.D., George Bond, K.S., Thomas Bond of Looe, the two Hodys, etc.

Burkes Landed Gentry, at any public library, for Purbeck Bonds.

Pedigree of Bond, by Bond, 2nd edition, (much fuller notes and the Edward III. pedigree), Brit. Mus., No. 1880 c15.

The Genealogist's Guide, by George W. Marshall. L.L.D. Pub. by himself. Gives list of other references to Bonds in all other books and M.S.S. Public Libraries.

Corporations Chronicles, being some Account of the Ancient Corporations of East Looe and West Looe, in the county of Cornwall. By A.L.Browne, M.A. County Library can get it from Truro. Very interesting, lots about Thomas Bond, with silhouette and extract from his books.

Annals of the Reign of Elizabeth, by Camden. Have not seen it.

Buccaneers of the Pacific, by Wycherly. Recommended by Dr. Bond. I do not know where it can be obtained.

Armorial families by Fox-Davies.

Book of Crests of the families of Great Britain and Ireland. by James Fairbairn, 4th. edition 1905, two volumes.

The History and Antiquities of Newbury its Environs. 1839. British Museum 2368 bb 151.

History of the Commoners of Gt. Britain & Ireland by John Burke, 2 vols. 1834/8 Brit. Mus. 2409e.

The History of the Ancient Town & Borough of Newbury by Walter Money 1887.

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