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- ↑ Addit. MS. 5846 f. 123 b.
- ↑ Addit. MS. 5804, f. 81.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Baker, John (d.1745)". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.