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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Goodacre, Hugh". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.- Strype, John Memorials of Thomas Cranmer, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury Oxford University Press 1840
- Sir James Ware Bishops of Ireland Dublin 1739
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