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- ↑ Oram, Richard D. (2011), Domination and lordship: Scotland 1070–1230, The new Edinburgh history of Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, p. 128, ISBN 978 0 7486 1496 7 . – via Google Books
- 1 2 Oram, Richard D. (2011), Domination and lordship: Scotland 1070–1230, The new Edinburgh history of Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, p. 316, ISBN 978 0 7486 1496 7 . – via Google Books
- ↑ Barrow, Geoffrey Wallis Steuart (2003), The kingdom of the Scots: government, church and society from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 320–321, ISBN 0 7486 1802 3 . – via Google Books
- ↑ Barrow, Geoffrey Wallis Steuart (2003), The kingdom of the Scots: government, church and society from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 319–320, ISBN 0 7486 1802 3 . – via Google Books