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- ↑ Brian John (1991). Pembrokeshire Folk Tales. Greencroft. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-905559-59-9.
- ↑ Calendar of State Papers, Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office: Domestic series. Longman. 1891. p. 587.
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