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- William of Newburgh (1861). Stevenson, Joseph (translator); McLetchie, Scott (eds.). Historia rerum anglicarum (The Church Historians of England). Vol. IV. London: Seeley's.
{{cite book}}:|editor1-first=has generic name (help) Book 5 Ch. 20 & 21, "Of a conspiracy made in London by one William, and how he paid the penalty of his audacity", Full-text online. - Bartlett, Robert (2002). England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1075–1225. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-925101-0.
- Robert Fabyan (c. 1511), William with the Long Beard
