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- ↑ St Margaret's Parish (Southwark, London, England) (1537). Lease from St. Margaret's Parish, Southwark to Thomas Glover, Waterman.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Youngs, Frederic (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Vol. I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901050-67-9.
- ↑ Roberts, Howard and Walter H. Godfrey, eds. Bankside (The Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch Southwark). Vol. 22 of Survey of London. London: London County Council, 1950. Remediated by British History Online.
- ↑ Barron, Caroline; Carlin, Martha; Rosenthal, Joel T. (30 November 2017). Medieval London: Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron. ISD LLC. ISBN 978-1-58044-257-2.
St Saviour Southwark took over St Margaret Southwark and so has been included. Those which established lectureships but had not had parish fraternities before 1548 were St Margaret Lothbury, St Mary Aldermanbury, St Michael Paternoster, ...
- ↑ Rendle, W. (1878). Old Southwark and Its People. United Kingdom: W. Drewett.
- ↑ "The Discovery Service".
- ↑ 'Borough High Street', in Survey of London: Volume 22, Bankside (The Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch Southwark), ed. Howard Roberts and Walter H Godfrey (London, 1950), pp. 9-30. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol22/pp9-30
- ↑ 'The borough of Southwark: Churches', in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4, ed. H E Malden (London, 1912), pp. 151-161. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol4/pp151-161
- ↑ Bedford, Kristina (15 February 2019). Secret Southwark and Blackfriars. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-7659-3.
... to St Mary Magdalene against the wall of the Priory church to serve the needs of resident laymen, while the Parish Church of St Margaret, situated on the west side of what is now Borough High Street at its junction with Southwark ...
- ↑ MacLean, Sally-Beth (1996). Festive Liturgy and the Dramatic Connection: A Study of Thames Valley Parishes. Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, 8, 49–62.
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