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- ↑ Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII vol. XVIII, pt.ii, p.18; LP, vol. X, no. 264 & no. 398, ed. James Gairdner
- ↑ p.130-131, Robert Hutchinson, Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrnat
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