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References
- G. R. Elton, Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume II (CUP, 1974).
- H. Hallam, The Constitutional History of England (1827).
- S. R. Gardiner, History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603-1642 (1883).