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References
- ↑ Daniel Kemp, Richard Pococke's Tours through Scotland (Edinburgh, 1887), p. 326.
- Pringle of Stichill: the 3rd Baronet married Magdalen Pringle, while her aunt married Sir James Hall, of Dunglass, 2nd Bt.
- Ten Parishes of the County of Haddington, by John Martine, edited by E.J.Wilson, Haddington, 1894, p. 214.
- Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, edited by Peter Townend, 105th edition, London, 1970.
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
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