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- Paul Hopkins, ‘Payne, Henry (d. 1705?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2007
- The Fatal Jealousie (1673), by Henry Nevil Payne, edited by Willard Thorp. The Augustan Reprint Society (1948).
