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- ↑ Arthur Collins, Jewels and Plate of Elizabeth I (London, 1955), p. 213.
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- ↑ Susan Doran, Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I (Routledge, 1996), p. 34.
- ↑ 43rd Annual Report by the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, Appendix II (London, 1882), p. 19: Joseph Stevenson, Calendar State Papers Foreign Elizabeth, 5 (London, 1867), pp. 217–222
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- ↑ William Maitland, The History and Survey of London, 2 (London, 1756), p. 1126.