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- ↑ Wood, Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 226
- ↑ Vicaria Leodiensis, p. 69
- ↑ Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis, ed. Thomas Dunham Whitaker, p. 258
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Favour, John". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
