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- ↑ 'Obituary: Dr Athol Murray, historian, scholar and former Keeper of the Records of Scotland', The Scotsman, 20 August 2018
- ↑ 'Obituary: Dr Athol Murray, historian, scholar and former Keeper of the Records of Scotland', The Scotsman, 20 August 2018
- ↑ Alan Borthwick, 'Athol Murray, 8 November 1930–24 August 2018: An Appreciation', SHR, 98:1 (April, 2019), pp. 128-30
- ↑ Julian Goodare, State and Society in Early Modern Scotland (Oxford, 1999), pp. 126-7 & fn. 86, citing Murray, 'Notes on the Treasury Administration', Treasurer's Accounts, vol. 12, pp. xxx-xxxi.