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- ↑ Lydgate, John; Edwards, Anthony Stockwell Garfield (July 2004). The Life of St Edmund, King & Martyr: John Lydgate's illustrated verse life presented to Henry VI : a facsimile of British Library MS Harley 2278. British Library. ISBN 9780712348713 . Retrieved 13 November 2018.
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