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- ↑ Aonghus McKechnie, 'Exiting Europe?', Louisa Humm, John Lowrey, Aonghus McKechnie, Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750 (Edinburgh, 2020), p. 65.
- ↑ John Imrie & John G. Dunbar, Accounts of the Masters of Work, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1982), pp. 391, 395-9, 405.
- ↑ HMC Laing Manuscripts at Edinburgh University, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1914), p. 209.
- ↑ Bernard Burke, 'Naesmyth', Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage (London, 1878), p. 869.
- ↑ John Veitch, The Tweed, and Other Poems (Glasgow, 1875), p. 210.