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- ↑ James Cameron, James V (Tuckwell, 1998), p. 42.
- ↑ Robert Kerr Hannay, Acts of the Lords of Council of Public Affairs (Edinburgh, 1932), pp. 284-5.
- ↑ Joseph Bain, Hamilton Papers, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1890), pp. 721