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- ↑ Adrian Tinniswood (31 January 2011). By Permission Of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London. ISBN 9781446402719.
- ↑ Thomas Johnson (1722). The Rector Corrected. Being an Answer to William Taswell, (who is Stiled D. D. and Rector of St. Mary Newingtonin Surry.) Wherein his Objections against the Quaker in his Pamphlet, Intituled The Popish Priest Unmask'd, are reduced to four Heads, viz. I. The Qualification and Call of a Gospel-Minister II; His Maintenance; III. Baptism; IIII. The Supper; Which important subjects are briefly set in a true Light ; with some Remarks on several of the Doctors false, ridiculous and defamatory Stories. the Assigns of J. Sowel, at the Bible in George-Yard in Lombard-Street.
- ↑ John Fallowfield (1723). A Brief Examination of William Taswell's Book, Entituled Antichrist Reveal'd Among the Sect of Quakers. Wherein His Gross Abuses and False Charges Are Considered and Detected. the Assigns of J. Sowel, at the Bible in George-Yard in Lombard-Street.
- ↑ Nicholas Keene (2002). "John Fell: Education, Erudition and the English Church in Late Seventeenth-Century Oxford". In Mordechai Feingold (ed.). History of Universities: Volume XVIII/1 2003, Volume 18. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199262021.
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