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- ↑ George Powell McNeill, Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vol. 19 (Edinburgh, 1898), p. 133.
- ↑ George Powell McNeill, Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vol. 19 (Edinburgh, 1898), pp. 234, 250
- ↑ David Laing, Works of John Knox, vol. 2 (Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, pp. 461-2: NRS E30/11.
- ↑ Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, vol. 5:2 (Edinburgh, 1957), pp. 324-5 no. 3361.
- ↑ Gazetteer for Scotland: Hunter's Bog
- ↑ Peter Symms, 'Some aspects of the sheep farming activities of James V', Scottish Economic & Social History, 7:1 (May 1987), pp. 66–68.
- ↑ Exchequer Rolls, 17 (Edinburgh, 1897), pp. lii–lv.
- ↑ Aeneas Mackay, Historie and cronicles of Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 353
- ↑ Exchequer Rolls, 17 (Edinburgh, 1897), p. 741.
- ↑ Arthur Clifford, Sadler State Papers, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1809), p. 30.
- ↑ HMC 15th Report: Duke of Buccleuch (London, 1897), p. 17.