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- ↑ David Masson, Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1578-1585, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1880), p. 491.
- ↑ Balfour Paul, Sir James. The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1904), pp. 1-8
- ↑ Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1589-1593, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 654, 657.
- ↑ Annie I. Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1593-1595, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 74.