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- ↑ There are two places in Yorkshire called Walton – Walton, Leeds and Walton, Wakefield. The latter of those places was mentioned in the Domesday Book; and is the site of Walton Hall, a stately home built on the site of a former moated mediaeval hall. That is suggestive but not decisive evidence of where Thomas Fairfax lived.
- ↑ Rot. Parl. iv. 164
- ↑ (Grants of Edward V, 6)
- ↑ "Steeton Hall". Heritage Gateway. Historic England. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Fairfax, Guy". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.