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- ↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Mab-Marygold
- ↑ "The history of Surrey", Part 2, Vol I Brayley, E.W. p262: Dorking; Robert Best Ede; 1841
- ↑ Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, pp. 88–89
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