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- ↑ Ferriby, David (2015). The Tudors: England 1485 - 1603. London: Hodder Education. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-4718-3758-6.
- ↑ Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, ed. James Gairdner. Vol. X, no. 276.
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