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- ↑ "The Clergy-Man's Vade Mecum: Or, an Account of the Antient and Present Church of England; the Duties and Rights of the Clergy; and of Their Privileges and Hardships, Etc."Johnson, J. p284: London; John Nicholson; 1706
- ↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Chocke-Colepeper
- ↑ Horn, Joyce M. (1971), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 2, pp. 15–17
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