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{Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland MS 73, item 2}
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{Morton Papers} {same hand as NLS MS 73, items 1 and 3} {and NAS
RH4/124/2, section 2 2, no. 27 "duntreath13.txt"} {x after a letter
indicates a point was written over it in the ms} *BE IT KENDE
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