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- ↑ Records of Aboyne (Aberdeen, 1894), p. 526.
- ↑ Records of Aboyne (Aberdeen, 1894), p. 526.
- ↑ John Stuart, A Breiffe Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes (Aberdeen, 1844).
- ↑ Gilbert Blackhall, A Breiffe Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes (Aberdeen, 1844), pp. 124-5.