1. J. S. Gibson, Playing the Scottish Card. The Franco-Jacobite Invasion of 1708 (Edinburgh, 1988).
2. HMC Egmont I, p. 220; RA 103/80.
3. BL Add. 51417 f. 77; Elliot to his father, Lord Minto, 15 Nov. 1755, NLS Mss 11001 f. 15.
4. BL Add. 47028 f.21.
5. Wodrow, Analecta (4 vols, Edinburgh, 1842–3), p. 280.