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- ↑ Lowther Correspondence in Cumbria Record Office.
- ↑ John Mowbray, Report of the Gentlemen appointed by the General Court of the Charitable Corporation, 8.
- ↑ "Expulsions from the House of Commons" . Retrieved 1 February 2007.
- ↑ Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
- ↑ "No. 7266". The London Gazette . 15 January 1733. p. 3.
- ↑ "No. 7231". The London Gazette . 15 September 1733. p. 2.
- ↑ London Gazette, passim.
- ↑ The statutes at large, from Magna Charta, to the thirtieth year of King George the Second, inclusive IV (ed. the late John Cay, Esq, London, 1758), 5 Geo. II, c.3.
- ↑ An abstract of all the acts passed in the sixth session of the seventh parliament of Great Britain, and in the sixth year ... of George II (London, 1733), 6 Geo II, c.2.