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- Sainty, J.C. (March 1999), Clerks of the Signet c.1539-1660 (Provisional list), Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- Williams, John (1836), Ancient & modern Denbigh: a descriptive history, Williams, p. 313
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- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Pollard, Albert Frederick (1900). "Windebank, Francis". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 62. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 162–166.
