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- ↑ "CROSSE, Robert (d.1611), of London and Marten Abbey, Essex. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
- ↑ "Crosse, Sir Robert (c. 1547–1611), naval commander" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37326.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 20 (London, 1930), p. 144.
- ↑ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 20 (London, 1930), p. 163.
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