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- Exeter, Devon Record Office, 3248A–0/11/117.
- Kew, The National Archives, SC 1/46/265.
- London, British Library, Cotton MS Titus A.xxiii, fols. 2r–53v.
- London, British Library, Royal MS 18.A.xii.
- London, College of Arms, MS R.25, fols. 24r–62v.
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 45 (Part 2), fols. 1r–7v, 18r–23v, 41r–43v, 46r–53v.
- Sankt-Peterburg, Rossiyskaya natsional’naya biblioteka, MS Fr.f.v.IX 1, fols. 1r–58v.
- Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, MS Blankenburg 111, fols. 1r–47r
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