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- ↑ McCleary Family Crest and Name History, HouseOfNames.com
- ↑ "Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy – Roisin Cossar | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 22 November 2018. ]
- Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy, Roisin Cossar, Harvard University Press, 2017.
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