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- ↑ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
- ↑ Parliamentary history : 1629–1660, A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 5 (1957), pp. 132–154. Date accessed: 5 February 2011 Note – J. Waylen, History of Marlborough, 522, lists the borough's members as Sir William Carnaby and Sir Francis Seymour, but Seymour was returned as knight of the shire in April]