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- The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., BCL., London, 1888, p.97.
- The Visitation of Essex 1552 edited by Walter C. Metcalfe, F.S.A., London, 1878, p.85.
- The Visitation of Essex 1612 edited by Walter C. Metcalfe, F.S.A., London, 1878, p.256.
- Plantagenet Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Baltimore, Md., 2004, p.514.
- Magna Carta Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Baltimore, Md., 2005, p.584.
- ↑ Date of being condemned to death.
- ↑ Carpenter, Christine. "Mountford family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63908.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- 1 2 "Parishes: Coleshill | British History Online".
- ↑ "MOUNTFORD, Simon (By 1487-1537/38), of Sutton Coldfield and Kingshurst in Coleshill, Warws. | History of Parliament Online".