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- ↑ Suzannah Lipscomb, 1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII, p. 30
- ↑ Rawdon Brown, Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII, Despatches by Sebastian Giustinian, 2 vols (London, 1854).
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