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- ↑ David Baldwin (1990). The Chapel Royal : Ancient and Modern. Duckworth. ISBN 9780715623497.
- 1 2 John Harley (2018-12-21). Orlando Gibbons and the Gibbons Family of Musicians. Routledge. ISBN 9780429830549.
- ↑ Lucy Munro (2005). Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139446051.