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- ↑ "Cecil, Robert (CCL634R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.