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- "Bellewe, Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2054.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Winfield, Percy H. The Chief Sources of English Legal History. Harvard University Press. 1925. Reprinted by Beard Books. 2000. Page 234.
- ↑ Rigg, James McMullen (1885). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 193.
- ↑ Reprint of "Les ans du roy Richard le Second" by Steven and Haynes, 1869. Advertisement dated September 1869. Digitised copy from Google Books.