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- 1 2 3 "Lyle, Robert, first Lord Lyle (d. c. 1470), nobleman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66112.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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- 1 2 Lyle 1936, p. 83.
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Resources
- Wm. Lyle (1936). "De Insula" or The Lyles of Renfrewshire.