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- ↑ Joseph Bain, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1900), p. 190 no. 227.
- ↑ Joseph Bain, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1900), p. 198 no. 238
- ↑ Rosalind K. Marshall, Queen Mary's Women: Female Relatives, Servants, Friends and Enemies of Mary, Queen of Scots (John Donald: Edinburgh, 2006), p. 150.
- ↑ A. Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 4 (London, 1852), pp. 377-381, 393.
- ↑ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland, 1574-1581, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 568 no. 645.