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- ↑ "History of the Office". Dublin City Council. 9 September 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ↑ "Obit: Ball, Robert January 25, 1635". Ireland Genealogy Project Archives. 21 May 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
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