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- ↑ Jean Munro & Henry Steuart Fotheringham, Edinburgh Goldsmith's Minutes (Edinburgh, 2006), pp. 27-28.
- ↑ Calendar of State Papers Foreign, 1575-1577, p. 150: TNA SP 52/26/2 f.218.
- ↑ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1907), pp. 182, 197-8.
- ↑ National Records of Scotland, Will of Michaell Sym, CC8/87/5 p. 591.