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- ↑ History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: Biographies of the Members of the Commons House. H.M. Stationery Office. 1936.
- ↑ The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Volume 1, the First Phase. Cambridge University Press. 16 May 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-52027-0.
- ↑ W.I. Howard ‘Gilbert Debenham, a Medieval Rascal in Real Life’, History, xiii. 300-14
- ↑ History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: Biographies of the Members of the Commons House. H.M. Stationery Office. 1936.
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