The Complete Peerage, vol. 4, p. 259. See also the Nov. 1902 edition of The Ancestor Quarterly, which described the Spencers as „that pushful house of shepherd kings“ with a „brand new and more than doubtful pedigree.“ Sounding a more gentle tone, Don Steel in the March 1996 edition of Soul SearchАрхив на оригинала от 2016-05-04 в Wayback Machine. noted sadly that the pedigree forgery „obscures the real achievement of the Spencers of Althorpe. Alone, perhaps among the English nobility, the Spencers owed their riches and their rise not to the favour of a king or to the spoils of monasteries, nor even to a fortune made in trade, but to successful farming.“
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Round, J. Horace. The Spencers and The Despencers // The Baronage. The Baronage Press Ltd and Pegasus Associates Ltd. Архивиран от оригинала на 2021-11-22. Посетен на 1 January 2017.
Round, J. Horace. The Spencer Family // The Baronage. The Baronage Press Ltd and Pegasus Associates Ltd. Архивиран от оригинала на 2019-09-25. Посетен на 1 January 2017.
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The Complete Peerage, vol. 4, p. 259. See also the Nov. 1902 edition of The Ancestor Quarterly, which described the Spencers as „that pushful house of shepherd kings“ with a „brand new and more than doubtful pedigree.“ Sounding a more gentle tone, Don Steel in the March 1996 edition of Soul SearchАрхив на оригинала от 2016-05-04 в Wayback Machine. noted sadly that the pedigree forgery „obscures the real achievement of the Spencers of Althorpe. Alone, perhaps among the English nobility, the Spencers owed their riches and their rise not to the favour of a king or to the spoils of monasteries, nor even to a fortune made in trade, but to successful farming.“
web.archive.org
The Complete Peerage, vol. 4, p. 259. See also the Nov. 1902 edition of The Ancestor Quarterly, which described the Spencers as „that pushful house of shepherd kings“ with a „brand new and more than doubtful pedigree.“ Sounding a more gentle tone, Don Steel in the March 1996 edition of Soul SearchАрхив на оригинала от 2016-05-04 в Wayback Machine. noted sadly that the pedigree forgery „obscures the real achievement of the Spencers of Althorpe. Alone, perhaps among the English nobility, the Spencers owed their riches and their rise not to the favour of a king or to the spoils of monasteries, nor even to a fortune made in trade, but to successful farming.“
Round, J. Horace. The Spencers and The Despencers // The Baronage. The Baronage Press Ltd and Pegasus Associates Ltd. Архивиран от оригинала на 2021-11-22. Посетен на 1 January 2017.
Round, J. Horace. The Spencer Family // The Baronage. The Baronage Press Ltd and Pegasus Associates Ltd. Архивиран от оригинала на 2019-09-25. Посетен на 1 January 2017.
