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- ↑ Margaret Sanderson, Mary Stewart's People (Edinburgh, 1987), pp. 64-5 citing National Records of Scotland, RH9/1/2.
- ↑ Joseph Bain, Hamilton Papers, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1890), p. 541: Robert Kerr Hannay, Acts of the Lords of Council in Public Affairs (Edinburgh, 1932), p. 528.
- ↑ Margaret Sanderson, Mary Stewart's People (Edinburgh, 1987), pp. 68-69.
- ↑ Gordon Donaldson, Scotland's History: Approaches and Reflections (Scottish Academic Press, 1995), p. 71.
- ↑ Margaret Sanderson, Mary Stewart's People (Edinburgh, 1987), p. 55.
- ↑ William Boyd, Calendar of State Papers Scotland: 1574-1581, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 531.