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- ↑ George Burnett, Exchequer Rolls of Scotland: 1502-1507, vol. 12 (Edinburgh, 1889), pp. 374-5
- Burke, Messrs., John and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, etc., London, vol.1, 1848, pedigree CVII.
- Anderson, William, The Scottish Nation, Edinburgh, 1867, vol.ii, p. 339.
- Pine, L.G., The New Extinct Peerage, 1884–1971, London, 1972, p. 33.
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