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- ↑ Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, British Museum, London 1819, p. 246.
- ↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Popham-Price
- ↑ Horn, Joyce M. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 10, pp. 19–20
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