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- ↑ John Stow. The Pennance of Elizabeth Crofts, for Molesting the Citizens of London with strange noises (1554), in Helme, William. Curious Miscellaneous Fragments On Various Subjects (1815)
- 1 2 Daniel Hahn, ‘Crofts, Elizabeth (b. c.1535)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 7 Dec 2014
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