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- ↑ Rawdon Brown, Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII, vol. 2 (London, 1854), pp. 228, 234, sometimes as "Monchaunce".
- ↑ Calendar State Papers Venice, vol. 2 (London, 1867), p. 471 no. 1095: Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, vol. 3 (London, 1808), p. 633.
- ↑ Bruce R. Smith, Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700 (Princeton, 2014), p. 134: Janette Dillon, The Language of Space in Court Performance, 1400-1625 (Cambridge, 2010), p. 110: E. H. (ed), Cardinal Wolsey; his rise and life, as related by Cavendish (London, 1855), pp. 19-20.
- ↑ Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts, 1588-1596', Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI (Woodbridge, 2020), p. 43.
- ↑ Anne Emily Garnier Newdigate-Newdegate, Gossip from a Muniment Room : being passages in the Lives of Anne and Mary Fytton, 1574–1618 (London, 1897), p. 117: Vivienne Larminie, 'Fighting for Family', James Daybell, Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700 (Palgrave, 2001), p. 102.