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- The Scots Peerage , by Sir James Balfour Paul, under 'Home of Dunbar', p. 283-5, and v. 2, p. 172.
- Index to Genealogies, Birthbriefs and Funeral Escutcheons, recorded in the Lyon Office, by Francis J. Grant, W.S., Rothesay Herald & Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records, Edinburgh, 1908, p. 28.
- The Extinct & Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, by Messrs. John and John Bernard Burke, 2nd edition, London, 1841, p. 635.
- Calendar of the Laing Charters AD854 - 1837, edited by the Rev. John Anderson, Edinburgh, 1899, number 2722.