↑ 1.01.11.2 Hyde, Myrtle Stevens, “A Study of the Downing Family in England, with Connections in Early New England”, v. 74 [Jul-Oct 1999] : 161-174, 299-308., in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.) (at 74:307).
THOMAS DOWNING, bp. Spexhall, Jan. 1594, deceased before 1650; his sons George and William named in the 1650 will of their grandfather.