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- ↑ "Custodian Reports; Or, A Collection of Cases Relative to Outlawries, and Grants Thereon, as Argued and Determined on the Revenue Sides of the Courts of Exchequer, Both in England and Ireland" by Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, John Conroy p108: Dublin, J.Exshaw, 1795
- ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p454 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
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