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References
- Cokayne, George Edward (1913). The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs. Vol. III. London: St Catherine Press. pp. 153–4.
- Payling, S.J. (2004). "Chaworth family (per. c. 1160–c. 1521)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52780.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [ self-published source ][ better source needed ]