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- ↑ Hoover, David L.; Corns, Thomas N. (2004). "The Authorship of the Postscript to "An Answer to a Booke Entituled, An Humble Remonstrance"". Milton Quarterly. 38 (2): 59–75. ISSN 0026-4326.
- ↑ Lewalski, Barbara K. The Life of John Milton (2003) Oxford: Blackwells Publishers. p. 128, 131.
- ↑ Hawkes, David (1 April 2010). John Milton: a Hero of Our Time. Berkeley: Counterpoint Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-1582434377.