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- ↑ Moses Aaron Richardson, The Local Historian's Table Book, of Remarkable Occurrences, vol. 1 (Newcastle, 1842), p. 249.
- ↑ HMC Laing MSS, vol. 1 (London, 1914), p. 61.
- ↑ Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic, Addenda 1580-1625 (London, 1872), pp. 193, 194-5, 213.
- ↑ Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham, vol. 2 (Durham, 1860), pp. 267-72.
- ↑ Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham, vol. 2 (Durham, 1860), p. 58.