Carlisle, Nicholas: Ancient Family of Bland (1826), p. 26.
Clay, J.W: Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, Vol. 2 of 3, p. 196, Bland, I. Derived from
Visitation of Yorkshire 1665-66 (Dugdale), ed. Davies, Surtees Soc. 36 (1859), p. 348, also reproduced in
Thoresby, Ralph: Ducatus Leodiensis (1715), p. 93.
(Davies's edition of the Visitation doesn't include the signatures, but Carlisle says the informant was Dr. Nathaniel Johnston, the Pontefract antiquary.)
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