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- ↑ Heawood 2012, p. 55.
- ↑ Heawood 2012, p. 56.
- ↑ East India Company (1899). Letters Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East. S. Low. p. xxxi.
- ↑ "Calendar of State Papers - East Indies: February 1615". British History Online. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Middleton, David". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- Bibliography
- Heawood, Edward (2012). A History of Geographical Discovery: In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-60049-2.
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