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- ↑ History of Parliament Online - William Selby
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- ↑ 'Visit to Knole, the Mote at Igtham', The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 215 (October, 1863), pp. 444–5.
- ↑ HMC 10th Report Appendix part 4 (Muncaster) (London, 1885), p. 240.
- ↑ Joseph Jackson Howard, Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, vol.1 (London, 1868), p. 23.