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- 1 2 Andrew Hope, Joan Bocher in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
- ↑ Benjamin Evans, The Early English Baptists (London 1864) quoting Gilbert Burnet's History of the Reformation (1682)
- ↑ William Wordsworth, Edward signing the warrant for the execution of Joan of Kent