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- ↑ A Chronicle of the Kings of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1830), p. 165.
- ↑ William Boyd, Calendar of State Papers Scotland: 1574-1581, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 531.
- ↑ Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1589-1593, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 300-1.
- ↑ Register of the Privy Council, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1882), p. 441, 442-3.
- ↑ Keith Brown, 'A House Divided: Family and Feud in Carrick', The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 200, Part 2 (October 1996), pp. 168-196: Robert Pitcairn, Historical and genealogical account of the principal families of the name of Kennedy (Edinburgh, 1830), pp. 41–59
- ↑ Duncan Thomson, Painting in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1975), p. 27.