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- ↑ Whitehouse 1896, p. 305.
- ↑ Jacobs, Knowles & Wingfield 2014, p. 67.
- ↑ Goldman 1999, p. 19.
- ↑ Congregational Union of England and Wales 1933, p. 220.
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