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- ↑ "Tench, Fisher (c.1673-1736), of Low Leyton, Essex and Hatton Garden, Mdx. History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
- ↑ Governors of the Bank of England. Archived 2012-02-12 at the Wayback Machine Bank of England, London, 2013.
- ↑ "Leyton: Manors and estates, British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
- ↑ Kennedy, John (1894). A History of the Parish of Leyton, Essex ... Phelp brothers. p. 35.
- ↑ Cherry, Bridget; Bradley, Simon; O'Brien, Charles; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1 January 2005). London: East. Yale University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-300-10701-2.
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