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- ↑ British History On-line
- ↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Riader-Roissie
- ↑ "The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford, Vol 3" à Wood A, p697: Oxford; Clarendon; 1786
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