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References
- G. T. O. Bridgeman, 'The Princes of upper Powys', Montgomeryshire Collections I (1868), 52 59 77ff.
- ↑ Cokayne, The Complete Peerage , new edition, XII(1), s.v. Suffolk, Earl.
- ↑ Visitation of Shropshire in 1623, Robert Tresswell Somerset herald