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- ↑ Linda Clark, "On this Day: 20 November 1459, The 'Parliament of Devils' assembles at Coventry", History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 05 April 2021.
- ↑ A. J. Pollard, The Wars of the Roses, second edn. (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), 23-24.
- ↑ Handbook of British Chronology (London: Royal Historical Society, 1986), p. 570.
- ↑ Handbook of British Chronology (London: Royal Historical Society, 1986), p. 570.
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