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- Crawford, George; "The Peerage of Scotland: Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom: Collected from the Publick Records of the Nation, the Charters and Other Writings of the Nobility, and from the Most Approved Histories" (1716).