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- ↑ Leigh Rayment gives day of burial as day of death
- 1 2 John Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain
- 1 2 3 Basil Browne Henning The House of Commons, 1660-1690, Volume 1
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)