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- ↑ The Ames Foundation Founded in 1910 by Contributions of the Friends of James Barr Ames for the Purpose of Continuing the Advancement of Legal Knowledge and Aiding the Improvement of the Law: General Editor: Theodore F.T. Plucknett. [Auch M. D. Tit.:] Publications of the Ames Foundation. [I.] Year Books of Richard II. [Rückentitel:] Year Books Series. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Company. 1914.
- ↑ "Ames Foundation Digital Collection of Legal History". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
- ↑ Foundation, Ames (1929). Year Books of Richard II.: 13 Richard II, 1389-1390. Harvard University Press.
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