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- 1 2 3 Burke 1836, p. 318.
- ↑ Skinner 2006.
- ↑ "Samuel Bosanquet II". Legacies of British Slave-Ownership. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ↑ Bank of England 2013.
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- "Governors of the Bank of England" (PDF). Bank of England. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
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