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- ↑ James Balfour, Annales of Scotland, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1824), p. 26-7.
- ↑ Mary Anne Everett Green and S. C. Lomas, Elizabeth, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (London, 1909), pp. 20-1.
- ↑ Roy Strong, Henry Prince of Wales and England's Lost Renaissance (London, 1986), pp. 141-2.
- ↑ David Laing, Royal Letters, Charters, and Tracts: Relating to the Colonization of New Scotland and Nova Scotia (Edinburgh, 1867), p. 109 quoting Robert Johnston, Rerum Brittanicarum Historiae, (Amsterdam, 1655), lib. xxii, p. 714, "in Aula victor evaserat, ac praemium meritae palmae tulerat".
- ↑ Norman Egbert McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 1 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 293 McClure identifies him as "Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun".
- ↑ Encouragements, For such as shall have intention to bee Under-takers in the new plantation of Cape Briton now New Galloway in America. by mee Lochinvar (Edinburgh, 1625)
- ↑ Dictionary of Canadian Biography 'STEWART, JAMES, of Killeith, fourth Lord Ochiltree'
- ↑ James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, vol. 5, p. 115
- ↑ David Laing, Royal Letters, Charters, and Tracts: Relating to the Colonization of New Scotland and Nova Scotia (Edinburgh, 1867), p. 109.