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- The Baronetage of England Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the Baronets now existing Vol I, Edward Kimber and Richard Johnson (1771) pp. 188–198
- Genealogy and Fraud: The case of the Fabulous Peshalls, David Jacques (2023) pp. 19–20