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- ↑ FINCH, Sir Thomas (d.1563), of the Moat, History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
- ↑ Maria Hayward, Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII (Maney, 2007), p. 206.
- ↑ Frederic Madden, Privy Purses Expenses of the Princess Mary (London, 1831), pp. 175, 179, 190.
- ↑ Frederick Madden, Privy Purse Expenses of Princess Mary (London, 1831), pp. xii-xiii.
- ↑ Frederick Madden, Privy Purses Expenses of the Princess Mary (London, 1831), pp. 177, 193.
- ↑ John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials, 3:1 (Oxford, 1822), p. 55.
- ↑ John Nichols, Illustrations of the Manners and Expences of Antient Times in England (London, 1797), p. 8
- ↑ Frederick Madden, Privy Purses Expenses of the Princess Mary (London, 1831), p. 233: Diary of Henry Machyn.
- ↑ Susan James, Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603 (Ashgate, 2005), 81, 216, 264: TNA PROB 11/40/32.