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References
- ↑ "The gentleman's magazine, Volume 3" Urban, S p608: London, F.Jeffries, 1733
- ↑ Alumni Oxonienses (1500-1714)
- ↑ "The History and Antiquities of Winchester: Setting Forth Its Original Constitution, Government, Manufactories, Trade, Commerce and Navigation, Its Several Wards, Parishes, Precincts, Districts, Churches, Religious and Charitable Foundations, and Other Public Edifices: Together with the Charters, Laws, Customs, Rights, Liberties, and Privileges of that Ancient City p276: Winchester, J. Wilkes, 1773
- ↑ Rootsweb
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