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- ↑ Accounts Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol.1 (1877), 290.
- ↑ Fraser, William, The Stirlings of Keir, (1858), p.128
- ↑ Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol.1 (1877), cxxxii-cxxxiv, 269
- ↑ McGibbon & Ross, Castellated & Domestic Architecture, vol.5 (1892), p.530: Accounts Treasurer, vol.1 (1877)
- ↑ Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol.2 (1900), p.xii
- ↑ Macdougall, Norman, James IV, Tuckwell (1997), p.155