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- ↑ Athol Murray, Financing the Royal Household, Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland (Scottish Academic Press, 1983), p. 56.
- ↑ State Papers Henry VIII, vol. 5 (London, 1836), p. 141.
- ↑ Amy Blakeway, Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland (Woodbridge, 2015), pp. 116-7.
- ↑ James Balfour Paul, Accounts of the Treasurer, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1913), p. 7.