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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1912). "Bl. Richard Fetherston". Catholic Encyclopedia . Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites: - John Pits, De illustribus Angliae scriptoribus (Paris, 1619), 729;
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