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- ↑ Matthew Paris's English history: From the year 1235 to 1273, Volume 2 of Matthew Paris's English History. Matthew Paris, William Rishanger. H.G. Bohn, 1853. p.232.
- ↑ Royal and other historical letters illustrative of the reign of Henry iii, selected and ed. by W.W. Shirley, Volume 2. Shirley, Walter Waddington, 1866. pp. 399–400.