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- British History Online Bishops of Winchester accessed on 2 November 2007
- British History Online Chancellors of York accessed on 2 November 2007
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
