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- ↑ Noble, Mark (1804). A History of the College of Arms. p. 251.
- ↑ The Visitations of the County of Surrey. Harleian Society. 1899. pp. 115–6.
- ↑ Gibbons, A.W. (1898). Notes on the Visitation of Lincolnshire, 1634.
- ↑ Broadway, Jan; Cust, Richard; Stephen K., Roberts (2004). A Calendar of the Docquets of Lord Keeper Coventry 1625-1640. List & Indexes Society. p. 201.
- ↑ CSPD Charles I 1641-43. pp. 150–1.
- ↑ "Will of Thomas Thompson, Herald at Arms of Streatham, Surrey".