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References
- Blomefield, Francis; Parkin, Charles (1807), An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Gallow and Brothercross. Blofield. Clackclose (2 ed.), W. Miller, pp. 505–506
- Shaw, William Arthur (1906), The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland, vol. 2, London: Sherratt and Hughes
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