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- ↑ O'Hart, John, The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ↑ G. E. C., The Complete Baronetage, vol. III (Exeter, 1903) p. 20.
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