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- ↑ Burke, John (1832). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Vol. 1. H. Colburn and R. Bentley. p. 564. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ↑ Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison. p. 363.
- ↑ "Maxwell Heraldry".