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- ↑ "Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum" p240: London; British Museum ; 1819
- ↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Horrobin-Hyte
- ↑ Horn, Joyce M.; Smith, David M. (1999), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 9, pp. 21–23
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