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- ↑ Cooper, Durrant. Sussex Vocabulary, 1854
- ↑ Summers, Montague. The Works of Ophra Benn, Vol 1. p.363 - vide Wright, English Dialect Dictionary
- ↑ The Pleasant history of lazy Laurence, Pen State University Library
- ↑ Pasmore, Anthony. "Richardson Circles – the work of the Forest’s first field archaeologist", Hampshire Field Club & Archaeology Society, Newsletter 43 - Spring 2005
