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- ↑ "A memoir of Gabriel Goodman ... with some account of Ruthin school, and the names of its most eminent scholars, etc: Also of Godfrey Goodman, D.D., bishop of Gloucester from the year 1624 to 1655" Newcome, R p46: Ruthin; Taliesin Press; 1825
- ↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Pritchard-Pyx
- ↑ "Chirk Castle Accounts, A.D. 1666–1753" Myddelton, W.M. p146: Manchester; Manchester University Press; 1931
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