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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 VirtualShropshire.com, Nesscliffe Country Park Archived 17 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 BBC News, Sir Humphrey Kynaston: The elusive highwayman
- ↑ Bartrum, Peter C., Welsh Genealogies AD 1400–1500 , 1983, Pg. 131
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham, David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Genealogical Publishing Com, 2004, Pg. 455
- ↑ Gaskell Family History Website, Sir Roger Kynaston
- 1 2 3 Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. 6 (1894): 209–222 ("The quaint historian of Middle says that he 'for his dissolute and ryotous liveing was called the wild Humphrey. Hee has two wives, but both of soe meane birth that they could never claim to any Coat of Armes... being outlawed in debt, hee left Myddle Castle (which he had suffered to grow ruinous for want of repaire) and went and sheltered himself in a Cave near to Nescliffe, which to this day is called Kynaston's Cave, and of him the people tell almost as many romantick storyes as of the great outlawe Robin Whood." He was outlawed in 1491, and pardoned two years later).
- 1 2 Gaskell Family History Web Site, Humphrey Kynaston
- ↑ Visitation of Shropshire, 1623, Robert Treswell
- 1 2 The Flude Genealogy Website Roger Kynaston (c. 1450–1517)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Subterranea of Great Britain, Kynaston's Cave Archived 4 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 3 Discovering Shropshire's History, From Castle to Cave: The Story of Wild Humphrey Kynaston, 2 October 2006
- ↑ Spence, Elizabeth Isabella, Old Stories, Longman & Co., 1822
