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- ↑ "The Common Scientist of the Seventeenth Century: A Study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1708" Hoppen, K.T. p32: London; Routledge; 2013 ISBN 9780415474849
- ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p257 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
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