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- ↑ Sir Richard Steele (1897). Selections from the Works of Sir Richard Steele. Ginn. pp. 14–.
- ↑ William White (1845). History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, and the City and County of the City of Norwich: Comprising, Under a Lucid Arrangement of Subjects, a General Survey of the County of Norfolk, and the Diocese of Norwich; with Separate Historical, Statistical, & Topographical Descriptions of All the Hundreds, Liberties, Unions, Boroughs, Towns, Ports ... author. pp. 816–.
- ↑ GENUKI: Norfolk: Genealogy: Newspapers
- Vox populi: the Norfolk newspaper press, 1760-1900 by R. Stedman (Library Association Thesis, London, 1971) ISBN 0-900592-58-3
- The Norwich Post: its contemporaries and successors by E. Fowler and M. Payne (Norfolk News Company, Norwich, 1951)
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