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Sources consulted for the biography of:Francis Howard fifth baron Howard of Effingham (bap 1643–1695)
Primary Sources
- Warren M. Billings, ed., The Papers of Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham, 1643–1695 (1989), printing baptismal, marriage, and other personal, family, and official records
- Records of Effingham's administration are printed in:
- H. R. McIlwaine, Wilmer L. Hall, and Benjamin J. Hillman, eds., Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (1925–1966), vol. 1
- H. R. McIlwaine, editor, Journal of the House of Burgesses, 1659/60–1693 (1914)
- Marion Tinling, ed., The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684–1776, 2 volumes (1977), 1:10, quotation
- Unfavorable contemporary evaluation of Effingham in Robert Beverley, The History and Present State of Virginia, ed. Louis B. Wright (1947), 95–97
Secondary Sources
- Warren M. Billings, Virginia's Viceroy, Their Majesties' Governor General: Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham (1991)
- Warren M. Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (2004), esp. 56–61, 81–82
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