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Notes
- ↑ Lindsay family, earls of Crawford (per. c.1380–1495), nobility by Alison Cathcart and David Ditchburn, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ Vol i pp. 18–20
- ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. 28th edition. BURKE, SIR BERNARD
Sources
- Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage Vol. IX. Edinburgh, 1904
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