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- ↑ Gordon Donaldson, Scotland's History: Approaches and Reflections (Scottish Academic Press, 1995), p. 71 names her as "Jean" Beaton.
- ↑ Thomas, Andrea, 'Women at the Court of James V' in Ewan & Meikle ed., Women in Scotland, c.1100-c.1750 (Tuckwell, 1999), p. 87.
- ↑ Register of the Great Seal: 1513-1546 (Edinburgh, 1883), p. 706 no. 3012.
- ↑ HMC 5th Report: Erskine (London, 1876), p. 636.
- ↑ Donna Heddle, John Stewart of Baldynneis Roland Furious: A Scots Poem in its European Context (Leiden, 2007), pp. 4-5.