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- ↑ O'Hart 2007, p. 504.
- 1 2 McGrath, Brid (10 July 1998). "A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641" – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
- ↑ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 637.