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- ↑ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. (London, 1828), p. 520.
- ↑ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. (London, 1828), pp. 518, 520.
- ↑ Andrew Ashbee, Records of English Court Music, 1603-1625, vol. 4 (1991), p. 195.