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- ↑ Scots Peerage, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1908), pp. 529-530.
- ↑ William Mackay, Fraser Chronicles (Edinburgh, 1905), pp. 268-71.
- ↑ William Mackay, Fraser Chronicles (Edinburgh, 1905), p. 309.
- ↑ William Mackay, Fraser Chronicles (Edinburgh, 1905), pp. 242, 258-9.
- ↑ William Mackay, Fraser Chronicles (Edinburgh, 1905), p. 268.
- ↑ William Mackay, Fraser Chronicles (Edinburgh, 1905), p. 277.