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- ↑ History of Parliament Online: Sir Arthur Mainwaring (1525-1590), accessed October 2017.
- "MAINWARING, George (bef.1551-1628), of Ightfield, Salop". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
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