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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Vol. VI, Ed. James Balfour Paul (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1909), p. 532
- ↑ John Donald Carrick, Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie, Volume 2 (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1830), p. 133
- ↑ Archibald Hamilton Dunbar, Scottish kings: a revised chronology of Scottish history, 1005-1625, Second Edition (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906)p. 123
- 1 2 John of Fordun's Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, Ed. William F. Skene (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1872), p. 329
- 1 2 Ronald McNair Scott, Robert the Bruce, King of Scots (New York: Carloll & Graf Publishers, 1996), p. 134
- 1 2 Herbert Maxwell, 'Chronicle of Lanercost', The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 8, No. 32 (Jul., 1911), p. 381
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