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- ↑ Jean Munro & Henry Steuart Fotheringham, Edinburgh Goldsmith's Minutes (Edinburgh, 2006), p. 33: National Records of Scotland, GD103/2/105 a receipt to David Cunningham of Robertland for gold buttons, 10 November 1593, shows that John Cunningham identified himself both as a merchant burgess and goldsmith.
- ↑ Marguerite Wood, Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh: 1589-1603 (Edinburgh, 1927), p. 332 Edinburgh City Archives MS 'Bailies Accounts, Unlaws 1564–1664, pp. 285–289.
- ↑ Calendar of State Papers, Scotland, 1593–1595, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), no. 597.
- ↑ Winifred Coutts, The Business of the College of Justice in 1600 (Edinburgh: Stair Society, 2003), pp. 63–64, citing NRS CS7/190/27v.