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- Daybell, James (3 January 2008). "Hungerford [other married name Cotell], Agnes, Lady Hungerford (d. 1523), murderer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14169.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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Attribution:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Harrison, William Jerome (1891). "Hungerford, Walter (1503-1540)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 259–261. Endnotes - Dugdale's Baronage;
- Burke's Extinct Peerage;
- Hoare's Hungerfordiana, 1823;
- Jackson's Guide to Farleigh-Hungerford, 1853, and Sheriffs of Wiltshire; Burnet's Hist. of Reformation, i. 566–7;
- Hall's Society in the Elizabethan Age;
- Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, Heytesbury Hundred, pp. 110 sq.;
- Brewer and Gairdner's Letters and Papers of Henry VIII; Antiquary, ii. 233.
