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- ↑ British History On-line
- ↑ Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1715 (Surnames Bruges-Bythner)
- ↑ "A History of the University of Oxford Including the Lives of the Founders" Chalmers, A. p480: Oxford; Collingwood & Co;1810
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