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- ↑ "PARLIAMENTARY REFORM—BILL FOR ENGLAND—COMMITTEE—EIGHTH DAY. HC Deb 22 July 1831 vol 5 cc204-56". Historic Hansard . 22 July 1831. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- ↑ "BULLER, John I (c.1632-1716), of Morval, Cornw". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- ↑ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 273.
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