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- ↑ Walter William Skeat; Anthony Lawson (1914). A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists. Original from the University of Michigan: Clarendon Press. p. 97.
- 1 2 Chisholm 1911.
- ↑ Les Rois thaumaturges. Étude sur le caractère supernaturel attribué à la puissance royale particulièrement en France et en Angleterre (Book II, chapter ii)
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cramp-rings". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 364.
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