Haycock, David Boyd. "Folkes, Martin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9795.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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- ↑ Albert G. Mackey, M.D. An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences, New and Revised edition. Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1894. p. 280
- ↑ "Martin Folkes (FLKS706M)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ G. W. Speth (ed), Quatuor Coronatorum Antigrapha, Vol 10, 1913, Minutes of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England, p. 58
- ↑ Pietre-Stones Alain Bernheim, My approach to Masonic History, Manchester 2011, retrieved 13 September 2013
- ↑ W. C. Lucis (ed), The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley M.D., Surtees Society, 1882, pp 98–100
- ↑ 'The Abbey Scientists' Hall, A.R. p12: London; Roger & Robert Nicholson; 1966
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Folkes, Martin". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 600.
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