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- 1 2 Basil Watkins (19 November 2015). The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 196–. ISBN 978-0-567-66456-3.
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . - ↑ Richard Challoner (1836). Modern British Martyrology: Commencing with the Reformation, A.D. 1535, 26th Henry VIII. to A.D. 1684, 24th Charles II. Keating, Brown. pp. 151–.
