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- 1 2 Maurice Hugh Keen, England in the Later Middle Ages: A Political History (Routledge, 1975)
- ↑ Randal Bingley, Hanged on the 4th of July (in Panorama - the Journal of the Thurrock Local History Society, 1996)
- ↑ Randal Bingley, Fobbing, Life and Landscape (Pheon Heritage in association with Thurrock Council Museum, 1997)