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- ↑ Norman Leslie Jones, The English Reformation: religion and cultural adaptation (2002), p. 116.
- ↑ Thomas Fowler, Corpus Christi (1898), p. 90.
- ↑ Adam Hamilton, The Angel of Syon: the life and martyrdom of Blessed Richard Reynolds, martyred at Tyburn, May 4, 1535 (1905), pp. 91–92.