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- ↑ A.B. Beavan, The Aldermen of the City of London Temp. Henry III to 1912 (Corporation of the City of London, 1913), II, p. 22. Some relationships described in this work are unreliable.
- ↑ H. Miller, 'Monoux, George (by 1465-1544), of Bristol, Glos.; London and Walthamstow, Essex', in S.T. Bindoff (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (Boydell & Brewer 1982). History of Parliament online.
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- ↑ Will of George Monoux of Walthamstow, Essex (P.C.C. 1544).
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