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References
- History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland etc., by John Burke, London, 1836, vol. 3, p. 437.
- Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, by Messrs. John and John Bernard Burke, 2nd edition, London, 1841, p. 626.
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