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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Richard Wilton". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites: - A. Oldoinius, Athenaeum Romanum (Perugia, 1676);
- Jacques Lelong, Bibliotheca Sacra (Paris, 1723), giving the date of his death as 1439;
- Johann Albert Fabricius, Bib. Med. AEt., VI (Hamburg, 1746), giving date of his date as 1339, by an obvious misprint;
- Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator Literarius (Innsbruck, 1899).
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