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- ↑ James Thomson Gibson-Craig, Papers Relative to the Marriage of James VI (Edinburgh, 1828), 'Discription', pp. v-vi 'THE DISCRIPTION OF THE QVEENS MAIESTIES MAIST HONORABLE ENTRY INTO THE TOVN OF EDINBVRGH, VPON THE 19. DAY OF MAII. 1590' (Edinburgh: Robert Waldegrave, ?1596), STC (2nd ed.) / 4105
- ↑ James Thomson Gibson-Craig, ], Papers Relative to the Marriage of James VI (Edinburgh, 1828), 'Discription', p. v
- ↑ Clare McManus, Women on the Renaissance stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court, 1590-1619 (Manchester, 2002), p. 78.
- ↑ Andrea Thomas, Glory and Honour: The Renaissance in Scotland (Edinburgh, 2013), p. 169.
- ↑ Michael Pearce, 'Riddle’s Court, Banquet and Diplomacy in 1598', History Scotland Magazine, 12:4 (2012), pp. 20-27.
- ↑ John Duncan Mackie, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1597-1603, vol. 13 (Edinburgh, 1969), pp. 807-8: Jamie Reid Baxter, 'Politics, Passion and Poetry in the Circle of Lennox: John Burel and his surviving works', L. A. J. R. Houwen, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Sally Mapstone, A Palace in the Wild: Essays on Vernacular Culture and Humanism in Late-medieval and Renaissance Scotland (Peeters, 2000), pp. 201-2.
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