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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Goodwin, Gordon (1890). "Harley, John (d.1558)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 397.