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- ↑ David Laing, Correspondence of the Earl of Ancram and Earl of Lothian (Edinburgh, 1875), pp. xlviii-xlix.
- ↑ David Laing, Correspondence of the Earl of Ancram and Earl of Lothian (Edinburgh, 1875), p. li.
- ↑ David Laing, Correspondence of the Earl of Ancram and Earl of Lothian (Edinburgh, 1875), p. li.
- ↑ David Laing, Correspondence of the Earl of Ancram and Earl of Lothian (Edinburgh, 1875), p. cxii.