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- ↑ Members of Parliament: Parliaments of England, 1213-1702 By Great Britain. Parliament pg 247 on line
- ↑ "The parliamentary history of the county of Gloucester, including the cities of Bristol and Gloucester, and the boroughs of Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud and Tewkesbury, from the earliest times to the present day, 1213-1898" By W. R. WILLIAMS, Hereford, 1898 pg 39 on line
- ↑ John Silvester Davies, ed., The Tropenell Cartulary: being the contents of an old Wiltshire muniment chest, 2 vols. (Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1908) as text or as images