[23] Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen, 1570-1625, as printed by the Spalding Club, Vol. II., pp. 27, 373.
[24] The Image of Irelande, 1581. Reprinted by A. & C. Black, Edinburgh, 1883, p. 50.
[25] Ibid. p. 105.
[26] La Navigation du Roy d’Escosse Iaques Cinquiesme du nom, referred to in the Transactions of the Iona Club, pp. 36, 37.
[27] The Great Seal Register, 1580-1593, edited by John Maitland Thomson, M.A., Advocate, No. 1491.
[28] Vestiarium Scoticum. William Tait, Edinburgh, 1842, Introduction, p. 59; and A Reply to the Quarterly Review upon the Vestiarium Scoticum. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1848, p. 23.
[29] Register of Signatouris in the Office of Comptrollerie, Vol. XII., 1587-1589, fol. 82.
[30] Charge of the Temporalitie of Kirklandis: North Side of the Forth. MS. in H.M. General Register House, fol. 94.
[31] Register of Signatouris in the Office of Comptrollerie, Vol. XXXIV., 1617, fol. 120.
[32] Ibid., Vol. XLVII., 1630, fol. 208.