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- ↑ Footnote, review in New York Times 20 December 1964 of Young Days of Old Rowley: The Tragedy of Charles II in the Years 1630-1660, by Hester W. Chapman
- ↑ "Poem: Song: Old Rowley the King by Anonymous".
- ↑ i.e. his practice of ennobling his illegitimate sons
- ↑ i.e. his practice of ennobling his mistresses
- ↑ Granger, Rev. James, Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, Vol.2, 1769, footnote, pp.339-40
- ↑ i.e. siring
- ↑ Later related in Oxberry's Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes, ed. by C.E. Oxberry, Vol 3, London, 1825, p.70
- ↑ See also Sayings of Charles II
- ↑ The Edinburgh Budget of Wit and Amusement, Being a Select Collection of Anecdotes, Bon Mots, Etc., Edinburgh, 1808, p.234, anecdote no.245
- ↑ Wheatley, Dennis, Old Rowley: A Private Life Of Charles II, 1933, pp.79-80