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- ↑ A.F. Pearson, Thomas Cartwright and Elizabethan Puritanism 1535-1603 (Cambridge University Press 1966), pp. 180-82; see also K. L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism: A History of English and Scottish Churches of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (E.J. Brill, Leiden 1982), p. 19 etc.
- ↑ S. J. Knox, Walter Travers: Paragon of Elizabethan Puritanism (Methuen 1962).
- ↑ Walter Travers. Trinity College Website, Retrieved on 16 September 2009
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