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- ↑ Coburn Walshe, Helen (January 2008). "Meredith, Richard (d. 1597)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press . Retrieved 30 October 2022.
- ↑ John O'Hart, The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry when Cromwell Came to Ireland (J. Duffey; M. H. Gill & son, 1892), p.46.