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- 1 2 3 History of Parliament Online - Beake, Robert
- ↑ Coventry's Mayors
- ↑ 'The City of Coventry: Social history to 1700', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 8: The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick (1969), pp. 208-221. Date accessed: 9 March 2011