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- ↑ 'Carew, Francis I (c.1598-1628), of Westminster', History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
- ↑ Sarah Poynting, 'Henrietta Maria's Notorious Whores', Clare McManus, Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 163, 168.
- ↑ Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1654 (London, 1886), p. 331.