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- ↑ Fisher, p. 459.
- ↑ Loades, pp. 59–60.
- ↑ Arthur Clifford, Sadler State Papers, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1809), pp. 65–364.
- ↑ Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. 18 part 1, (London, 1901), no. 804.
- ↑ Marcus Merriman, The Rough Wooings (Tuckwell: East Lothian, 2000), p. 122.
- ↑ Letters and Papers Henry VIII, vol. 18 part 1 (London, 1901), p. 454 nos. 804, 805, British History Online.