| AO (Foster) | Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 |
| ACAD (Venn) | A Cambridge Alumni Database |
| BHO | British History Online |
| BL | British Library, London |
| CCEd | Clergy of the Church of England Database |
| CL | Congregational Library, in Dr Williams’s Library, London |
| CUL | Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK |
| DAB | Dictionary of American Biography |
| DCB | Dictionary of Canadian Biography |
| DWL | Dr Williams’s Library, London |
| FEA | Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1541-1857 |
| FES | Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae |
| HOP | History of Parliament Online |
| LMA | London Metropolitan Archives, London |
| LPL | Lambeth Palace Library, London |
| ODNB | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
| Perdita | Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700, Index |
| SI | The Surman Index Online |
| VIAF | The Virtual International Authority File Index |