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Book references

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Barons Courts of Prestoungrange & Dolphinstoun. (2004) Judgement and declarator. Trinity Session: Elizabeth II. 53. 2004. July – November. http://www.prestoungrange.org/corefiles/archive/trinity_session/14_protection_of_dignity_of_baron.pdf : accessed 14 August 2018.

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Dickinson, William Croft. (1937) The Court book of the barony of Carnwath 1523-1542. Edinburgh: Scottish History Society.

Grant, Alexander. (2000) Baronies, lordships and earldoms in the early 15th century. In: McNeill, Peter G. B., and MacQueen, Hector L., eds. Atlas of Scottish History to 1707. Edinburgh: The Scottish Medievalists and Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh.

Grant, Alexander. (2008) Franchises north of the border: baronies and regalities in medieval Scotland. In: Prestwich, Michael, ed. Liberties and identities in the medieval British Isles. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. Preliminary and pre-publication version available online: http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/633/1/Grant_Franchises.pdf : accessed 14 August 2018.

Gretton, George L. (1996) Feudal system. In: Reid, Kenneth G.C. The law of property in Scotland. Edinburgh: The Law Society of Scotland. pp. 31-100.

Goodare, Julian, ed. (2004) ‘Fiscal feudalism in early seventeenth-century Scotland’. In: Scottish History Society. Miscellany XIII. Edinburgh: Scottish History Society. pp. 189-222.

Hamilton, Brian. (2006) A petition for arms with baronial additaments. The Armorial register newsletter, vol. 1,exclusive special extra edition, May 2006. http://www.armorialregister.com/monthly/special-newsletter-extra-06.pdf : accessed 14 August 2018. [An example of how the Abolition of Feudal Tenure Act 2004 has effected the entitlement to baronial additaments in Arms]

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Senior-Milne, Graham. (2004) A history of feudalism in Scotland. Scottish genealogist, September 2004. http://www2.thesetonfamily.com:8080/history/A_History_of_Feudalism_in_Scotland.htm : accessed 14 August 2018.

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