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- ↑ Browne Willis (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Or, An History of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs in England and Wales: ... The Whole Extracted from Mss. and Printed Evidences ... (2nd ed.). R. Gosling. p. 80. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
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