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- ↑ "Dutch hired ship 'Rozeboom' (1652)".
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- 1 2 "The Diary of Samuel Pepys". 2 February 2019.
- ↑ "Pepys Diary - Thursday 31 July 1662".
- ↑ "Pepys Diary - Tuesday 16 December 1662".
- ↑ Matthews, William G. (1970). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 1: 1660. University of California Press. p. 284.
- ↑ "Pepys Diary - Monday 27 April 1663".
- 1 2 Daniell, Francis Henry Blackburne (1863). Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles ..., Volume 4. H.M. Stationery Office.
- ↑ Henning, Basil Duke (1983). The House of Commons, 1660-1690 II Members C-L. Secker & Warburg. p. 200.