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- ↑ Among Browne Willis's manuscript collections for Buckinghamshire, preserved in the Bodleian Library, double entries are found of the presentation of William Forest by Anthony Lamson on 1 July 1556 to the vicarage of Bledlow in that county; but in George Lipscomb's "Buckinghamshire" the name of the presentee is given as William Fortescue, and the discrepancy has not been cleared up.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Forrest, William". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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