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- ↑ Foster, Joseph (1889). The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889. p. 318.
- ↑ Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records vol. 42. 1881. p. 728.
- ↑ Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. p. 497.
- ↑ "Will of The Right Honorable Ann Viscountess Carington, Dowager".