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- ↑ "Sexeys – The Sexey's story". Sexeys. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ↑ Sexey's School Archived 2007-07-07 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved June 2011
- ↑ Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, 2 (London: Colburn, 1849), p. 193.
