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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ven. Robert Thorpe". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites: - Richard Challoner, Missionary Priests, I, no. 86;
- John Hungerford Pollen, English Martyrs, 1584–1603 (London, 1908), 200–2;
- Thomas Francis Knox, Douay Diaries (London, 1878), passim.
