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- "Harding, John (HRDN584J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ John Rouse Bloxam, A register of the presidents, fellows, demies, instructors in grammar and in music, chaplains, clerks, choristers, and other members of Saint Mary Magdalen College in the University of Oxford, from the foundation of the College to the present time (1853)
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Harding, John (bap. 1601, d. 1665), alchemist and translator by Peter K. Benbow.
