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- ↑ Stipulations of the treaty, recorded by Pedro López de Ayala in his Crónicas de los reyes de Castilla (in Spanish).
- ↑ Payment letter by John I to the Duke of Lancaster, in the "Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España", vol. LI, pp. 39 - 46 (in Spanish).