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- ↑ George Burnett, Exchequer Rolls of Scotland: 1488–1496, vol 10 (Edinburgh, 1887), p. 487 "Et per liberacionem factam Fratri Johanni Cor per preceptum compotorum rotulatoris, ut asserit, de mandato domini regis ad faciendum aquavite, infra hoc compotum viij bolle brasii."
- ↑ Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh 1877), pp. ccxiv, 100, 232.
- ↑ James Balfour Paul, Accounts of the Treasurer: 1507–1513, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1902), p. 92: John Dixon Comrie, History of Scottish Medicine (London, 1927), p. 54
- Michael Jackson, Scotland and its Whiskies (Duncan Baird: London, 2002), p. 127
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