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- ↑ Reynolds, Bryan (Apr 1, 2003). Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England (Google eBook). JHU Press. p. unnumbered.
- ↑ Aydelotte, Frank (2013). Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds (5th ed.). Routledge. p. unnumbered.
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