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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Firth, Charles Harding (1897). "Skinner, Thomas (1629?-1679)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 52. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 348,349.
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