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- Balfour Paul, Sir James, Scots Peerage IX vols. Edinburgh 1907
- Fraser, Sir William. The Douglas Book IV Vols. Edinburgh 1885
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- Maxwell, Sir Herbert, A History of the House of Douglas II vols. London 1902
