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References
- Barbour, John, The Bruce, trans. A. A. H. Douglas, 1964.
- Sir Herbert Maxwell, The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272-1346: translated with notes (1913).
- Watson, Fiona J. (1998), Under the Hammer: Edward I and Scotland, 1286-1306, Tuckwell, pp. 105–106 – via Questia (subscription required)
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