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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cooper, Thompson (1886). "Bouchier, George". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 4. The following are referenced in the DNB article: - Clarendon's Hist. of the Rebellion (1843), 389;
- Lloyd's Memoires (1677), 565;
- Winstanley's Loyall Martyrology, 5;
- Granger's Biog. Hist. of England (1824), iii. 110;
- 'Barrett's Hist. of Bristol, 227, 228.
