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- ↑ Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665 – 2020. Dublin City Council. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ↑ O'Hart, John, The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ↑ McNally, Michael. Battle of the Boyne 1690: The Irish Campaign for the English Crown. Osprey Publishing, 2005. p.52.
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