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- ↑ Beer, Michelle (2018). Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780861933488.
- ↑ Maria Hayward, Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII (Maney, 2007), p. 305: J. S. Brewer, Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, 3:1 (London, 1867), p. 2 no. 8.