Elias Ashmole (English Wikipedia)

Hunter, Michael (September 2004; online edition May 2006) "Ashmole, Elias (1617–1692)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, London, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/764, retrieved 25 January 2010 (Subscription required)
Hill, Christopher (1968), "Elias Ashmole (1617–1692). His Autobiographical and Historical Notes, his Correspondence, and Other Contemporary Sources Relating to his Life and Work, Review", The English Historical Review, 83 (327): 355–357, doi:10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxvii.355
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Cannon-Brookes, Peter (June 1999), "Elias Ashmole, Grinling Gibbons and Three Picture Frames", Museum Management and Curatorship, 18 (2): 183–189, doi:10.1016/S0260-4779(00)00027-3

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Feola, Vittoria (23 July 2004), "Elias Ashmole's library", Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Annual Congress 2004, Institut d'Histoire du Livre, archived from the original on 11 August 2007, retrieved 3 March 2008

Michael Hunter calls it the first (see Hunter, 2004), but other sources propose Robert Moray in 1641 as the first Speculative Mason whose name is known (see Westfall, Richard S. (1996–2008), Elias Ashmole, Pietre-Stones Review of Freemasonry, retrieved 29 February 2008).

Ashmole Manuscripts, Archives Hub, Universities of Manchester and Liverpool, retrieved 3 March 2008

Elias Asmole – (1617–1692), Lichfield City Council, archived from the original on 18 February 2008, retrieved 29 February 2008

Beresiner, Yasha (October 2004), "Elias Ashmole: Masonic icon", MQ Magazine (11): 6–11

Elias Ashmole, founder of the Ashmolean Museum, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, retrieved 17 May 2018

Hunter, Michael (September 2004; online edition May 2006) "Ashmole, Elias (1617–1692)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, London, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/764, retrieved 25 January 2010 (Subscription required)

Feola, Vittoria (2005), "Elias Ashmole and the Uses of Antiquity", Index to Theses, Expert Information Ltd, retrieved 25 January 2010 (Password required)

Elias Asmole – (1617–1692), Lichfield City Council, archived from the original on 18 February 2008, retrieved 29 February 2008
Feola, Vittoria, English antiquarian medical books of the 1650s, Medical University of Vienna, archived from the original on 14 March 2016, retrieved 25 January 2010 (pdf)
Rare Books and Printed Ephemera, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, archived from the original on 14 April 2008, retrieved 3 March 2008
Feola, Vittoria (23 July 2004), "Elias Ashmole's library", Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Annual Congress 2004, Institut d'Histoire du Livre, archived from the original on 11 August 2007, retrieved 3 March 2008