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- ↑ Stanley T. Bindoff, John S. Roskell, Lewis Namier, Romney Sedgwick, David Hayton, Eveline Cruickshanks, R. G. Thorne, P. W. Hasler, The House of Commons: 1509 - 1558; 1, Appendices, constituencies, members A - C, Volume 4 (1982), p. 225; Google Books
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