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- William Stubbs's edition of Walter of Coventry (Rolls series, 2 vols, 1872–1873)
- R. Pauli, in Geschichte von England (Hamburg, 1853), iii. 872.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Davis, Henry William Carless (1911). "Walter of Coventry". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 297.
- Hunt, William (1887). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Taylor, John. "Coventry, Walter of (fl. 1293)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6484.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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