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- ↑ Biography: Thomas Corser on Hugh Holland
- 1 2 Maclean, Gerald; Matar, Nabil (2011). Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713. pp. 62–3.
- ↑ "Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice:December 1611, 1-15". British History Online. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ↑ Maclean, G. (2004). The Rise of Oriental Travel:English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580 - 1720. p. 222.
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