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- ↑ Roll of Burgesses of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1930), p. 260.
- ↑ Coltness Collections, p. 16.
- ↑ James Balfour Paul, Accounts of the Treasurer, vol. 6 (Edinburgh, 1905), pp. 341, 355.
- ↑ Coltness Collections, p. 16.
- ↑ Coltness Collections, p. 16.
- ↑ Alison Hay Dunlop, Anent Old Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1890), pp. 2-3, 5: Inventory of Monuments in Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1951), p. 38
- ↑ Alison Hay Dunlop, Anent Old Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1890), p. 3.
- ↑ Alison Hay Dunlop, Anent Old Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1890), pp. 11-12.