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- ↑ Will of Thomas Hussey of Hungerford Park, Berkshire (P.C.C. 1657).
- ↑ 'Parishes: Hungerford', in W. Page and P.H. Ditchfield (eds), A History of the County of Berkshire, Vol. 4 (V.C.H., London 1924), pp. 183-200. (British History online accessed 26 November 2016).
- 1 2 Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
- ↑ 'Parishes: Kintbury', A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4 (1924), pp. 205-217. Date accessed: 16 July 2011
- ↑ A.B. Beavan, The Aldermen of the City of London Temp. Henry III to 1912 (Corporation of the City of London, 1913), II, p. 67. Some relationships described in this work are unreliable.
- ↑ Will of Thomas Hussey of Shere (P.C.C. 1655). See The National Archives Discovery Catalogue, piece description D239 M/T 929, 'Settlement by John Leigh of Abinger to enfeoff Thomas Hussey, citizen and Grocer of London, 1647' (Derbyshire Record Office).
- ↑ Will of Thomas Hussey of Hampstead (P.C.C. 1671).
- ↑ T.F.T. Baker, D.K. Bolton and P.E.C. Croot, 'Hampstead: Hampstead Town', in C.R. Elrington (ed.), A History of the County of Middlesex Vol. 9, 'Hampstead, Paddington' (V.C.H., London 1989), pp. 15-33.
- ↑ Beavan, Aldermen of London, II, p. 93.