[1] Goadby, his wife and others have been given credit for this popular work that gave Carew the status of folk hero.
[2] Sherborne was well placed, on a post road from London to Penryn, Cornwall, and lying between Bristol and Weymouth.
Demand for news had been increased by the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, as well as commerce, and Goadby gained access to significant distribution networks.
[4] In 1753, Goadby inserted the following in his newspaper: "This is to inform all....in the counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devonshire and Cornwall, that the proprietor is ever willing to oblige every single person; but that it is impossible to contrive the circuit of the news carriers, as to take in every house or place; but if the inhabitants of any such parishes were this paper is not at present carried, would be so kind as to send a messenger to any place where it is brought in its usual circuit, for as many papers as are wanted in the parish, the proprietor will allow the person who comes for them a halfpenny on each paper he takes, besides a further allowance upon all the pamphlets, book &c. which he can sell in the said parishes.
[2] He was a religious man and naturalist, and bequeathed an endowment providing for the preaching of a sermon on the first Sunday of May in every year in Sherborne Church on the beauties of nature.