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- ↑ "The Visitations of Essex" pg. 538
- ↑ City of London Corporation "Analytical Index to the Series of Records Known as the Remembrancia" pg. 153
- ↑ Radcliffe, John Netten "The Pestilence in England: An Historical Sketch" pg. 37
- ↑ Withington, Robert "English Pageantry: An Historical Outline, Vol. II" pg. 22
- ↑ "The European Magazine and London Review, Vol. 52" pg. 12
- ↑ Thornbury, George Walter, and Valford, Edward "Old and New London" pg. 41
- ↑ Targoff, Ramie "Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England" pp. 25 - 26
- ↑ "Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity" pp. 408 - 410