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- ↑ David Laing, Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancram, and his son William, third Earl of Lothian, vol. 1 (Roxburghe Club: Edinburgh, 1875), pp. lxvii, 149-50.
- ↑ David Laing, Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancram, and his son William, third Earl of Lothian, vol. 1 (Roxburghe Club: Edinburgh, 1875), p. c.