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- ↑ Charles Spurgeon's verdict on this work, in Commenting and Commentaries, "A pile of paper, valuable to housemaids for lighting fires" is Thomas Pyle's only claim to fame in Evangelical circles.
- Thomas Pyle by E. G. Hawke, revised by Andrew Robinson, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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- Memoirs of a Royal Chaplain, 1729–1736 by Edmund Pyle, ed. A. Hartshorne (1905)
