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- ↑ Robert Kerr Hannay, Rentale Sancti Andree (SHS: Edinburgh, 1913), p. 108: Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, 1546-1551, vol. 9 (Edinburgh, 1911), p. 436.
- ↑ Girolamo Cardano, De Rerum Varietate (Basel, 1557), Lib. 7 Cap. 37, p. 431 "vidi in capite puellae filiae Thome Tonson Edimburgi, Tertii e septuaginta circiter margaritis Scoticis, pari et insigni magnitudine".
- ↑ Robert Keith, History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1734), p. 119.
- ↑ Calendar of Laing Charters (Edinburgh, 1899), pp. 158 no. 601, 217 no. 866-7, 219 no. 875.
- ↑ Jane Stewart Smith, Grange of St Giles (Edinburgh, 1898), p. 24.
- ↑ Francis James Grant, Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, 1532-1943 (Edinburgh, 1944), p. 207: Calendar of Laing Charters (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 314 no. 1284.
- ↑ Calendar of Laing Charters (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 297 no. 1203.