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- ↑ "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland" Burke, J./ Burke, J.B. p66: London; Henry Colburn; 1846
- ↑ 793-836 Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Jablonski-Juxston
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