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- Hall, A., ed. (1708). Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis, auctore Joanne Lelando Londinate. 2 vols. Oxford.
- D. Dumville; M. Lapidge, eds. (1984). The Annals of St Neots with Vita Prima Sancti Neoti. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition 17. Cambridge.
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