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- Footnotes
- ↑ Dowden: pp. 278-279.
- Bibliography
- Dowden, John (1912), Thomson, J. Maitland (ed.), The bishops of Scotland: being notes on the lives of all the bishops, under each of the sees, prior to the reformation, James Maclehose and sons.