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- ↑ John Fetherston, Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619 (London, 1877), p. 69
- ↑ Stanley Bindoff, The House of Commons, 1509-1558, 2 (London, 1982), pp. 573-4.
- ↑ John Hannet, The forest of Arden, its towns, villages, and hamlets (London, 1863), p. 232.
- ↑ Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz, An Account of an Elizabethan Family (Cambridge, 2018), p. 120: John Fetherston, Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619 (London, 1877), p. 69
- ↑ Jemma Field, 'A Cipher of A and C set on the one Syde with diamonds: Anna of Denmark’s Jewellery and the Politics of Dynastic Display', Erin Griffey, Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam, 2019), p. 143.