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- ↑ Richard Augustin Hay, Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale (Edinburgh, 1835), p. 24.
- ↑ David Masson, Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1585-1592, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1881), pp. 186, 229.