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- ↑ "An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, in the Isle of Ely" Watson, W. p452: Cambridgeshire H. and J. Leach, 1827
- ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 348–350. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ↑ Atkinson, 'Dromore - An Ulster Diocese', P 69
- ↑ Cotton, Henry (1849). Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates and ..., Volume 3 By Henry Cotton. p. 180,181. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
- ↑ Geni
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