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- ↑ 'GORGES, Arthur (1557-1625)', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981.
- ↑ Mark Girouard, Robert Smythson & The Elizabethan Country House (Yale, 1983), pp. 226-8.
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