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- ↑ Armstrong, Peter (2002-03-20). Bannockburn 1314: Robert Bruce's great victory: No.102. Graham Turner. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85532-609-5.
- ↑ Banks, Thomas Christopher (1807). The dormant and extinct baronage of England; or, An historical and genealogical account of the lives, public employments, and most memorable actions of the English nobility who have flourished from the Norman conquest. London: J. White. pp. 356–357., “To whom succeeded Robert De Morley, his son; who having married Hawyse, sister and heir to John le Mareschall, of Hengham, in com. Norf. had livery of the lands of her inheritance, the 10th of Edward II. Which Hawyse held the office of marshal of Ireland by descent.”