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- 1 2 3 John Foxe (1859). Narrative of the Days of the Reformation: Chiefly from the Manuscripts of John Foxe the Martyrologist;. Camden Society. p. 342.
- ↑ Christina Hallowell Garrett (10 June 2010). The Marian Exiles: A Study in the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism. Cambridge University Press. p. 37 note 1. ISBN 978-1-108-01126-6.
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