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Gift to Charles I, 1629-30; presented by the Duke of Sutherland, 1828.
Rooses 1886-92, IV, pp. 45-6, no. 825
Martin 1970, pp. 116-25
Brown 1979
Hughes 1980, pp. 157-65
Brown 1987, p. 40
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