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- ↑ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
- ↑ Royalist Composition Papers
- ↑ Visitation of the County of York 1665
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- ↑ 'Entry Book: September 1670', Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 3: 1669–1672 (1908), pp. 661–668. Date accessed: 31 January 2011
- ↑ John Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain Volume 4