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- ↑ Steven G. Ellis (17 June 2014). Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule. Routledge. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-317-90143-3.
- ↑ Great Britain. Record Commission (1830). State Papers: Published Under the Authority of His Majesty's Commission. King Henry the Eighth. G. Eyre and A. Strahan, printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. pp. 301.
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