This page was set up by Robert Sewell in February, 2002 to show the sources used when tracing the descent of the Sewell Family from persons connected with the Magna Charta.  Robert Sewell graduated from McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) in 1967 with a B.Sc. degree in chemistry.  After a year of studies at the University of Toronto's College of Education, he taught high school science in Collingwood, Ontario for a year and then taught chemistry, physics and general science in Hamilton, Ontario for twenty-nine years.  Robert Sewell retired from teaching in June 1998.

The material presented on the Magna Charta pages has been drawn from numerous sources:

• Richard Thomson:  An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John, London, 1829
• Sidney Lee (ed.) The Dictionary of National Biography, London, 1894
• A.C. Fox-Davies:  A Complete Guide to Heraldry, London, 1909
• The Book of History (18 Volumes), London, 1914
• G. A. Moriarty:  The Companions of the Conqueror, The American Genealogist, Oct. 1944.
• Florence Van Renssalaer:  The Livingston Family and Its Scottish Origins, New York, 1949
• The Pictorial Encyclopedia of the World (18 Volumes), New York, 1954
• David C.Douglas:  William the Conqueror, Berkeley, California, 1964
• Kenneth M. Setton (ed.) The Age of Chivalry, National Geographic Society, 1969
• Sidney Painter:  William Marshal, Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 1982
• George Andrews Moriarty: The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1985.
• Paul Johnson:  Castles of England, Scotland and Wales, London, 1989
• Wales Tourist Board:  Welsh Castles & Historic Places, Cardiff, 1990
• Berhard Grun, The Timetables of History, New York, 1991
• Fredrick Lewis Weis:  The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore, 1991
• Microsoft Encarta Encyclopædia 99, © 1993-1998 Microsoft Corporation
• W. Darcy McKeough, The McKeough Family Tree, Section #45, Stewart, 1997
• World Book Millenium 2000 Deluxe Edition, © 1999 World Book Inc., © IBM Corp.
• Norman F. Cantor (ed.) The Encyclopædia of the Middle Ages, New York, 1999
• Frederick L. Weis and Walter L. Sheppard:  Ancestral Roots, 7th Edition, Baltimore, 1999
• Douglas Richardson: Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, 2004
• Douglas Richardson: Magna Carta Ancestry, Baltimore, 2005
• Marc Morris: The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2005
• Sewell Vincent Sample:  Letters
• Brian Tompsett, Royal Genealogical Data, http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/genealogy/royal/
• Mediæval History Guide, http://historymedren.about.com/index.htm
• M. W. Cook:  Castles and Abbeys, http://www.castles-abbeys.co.uk
• Electric Library's Enyclopedia.Com,http://www.encyclopedia.com/
• Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe,  http://www.euratlas.com
• Jeffrey L. Thomas, The Castles of Wales, http://www.castlewales.com/home.html
• Paul Halsall, Internet Mediæval Sourcebook, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
• The Online Reference Book for Mediæval Studies, http://www.the-orb.net/
• Companions of Duke William in 1066, http://www.robertsewell.ca/conquest.html#who
• Text of The Magna Charta, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/magnacarta.asp
• Barons of the Magna Charta, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta#List_of_participants

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