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- ↑ Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancram, vol. 1 (Roxburghe Club: Edinburgh, 1875), pp. 27-8.
- ↑ "Inflation calculator". www.bankofengland.co.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ↑ Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancram, vol. 1 (Roxburghe Club: Edinburgh, 1875), pp. xl-xliv, see her signature, p. xliv.
- ↑ Westminster Abbey, Commemorations, Anne Stanley Countess of Ancrum
- ↑ Catalogue of the first special exhibition of national portraits ending with the reign of king James the Second on loan to the South Kensington museum, vol. 2 (London, 1866), p. 90 no. 529: George Scharf, A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Knowsley Hall (London, 1875), pp. 82-3 no. 145: Sketch of the portrait dated 1839, National Portrait Gallery.