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4. Richard Saôille, Bank of Scotland: A History, 1695–1995 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Uniôersity Press 1996), 59–62.
5. Alastair J. Durie, The Scottish Linen Industry in the Eighteenth Century (Edinburgh: John Donald 1979), 11.