Abbreviations used
- CDS
- Calendar of documents relating to Scotland, ed. J.Bain, Edinburgh 1881-8.
- CPL
- Calendar of entries in the Papal registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland; Papal letters, 1893-, ed. W.H. Bliss, London.
- CPL, Ben
- Calendar of Papal letters to Scotland of Benedict XIII of Avignon, 1976, ed. F. McGurk, (Scottish History Society) Edinburgh.
- CPL, Clem
- Calendar of Papal letters to Scotland of Clement VII of Avignon, 1976, ed. C. Burns, (Scottish History Society) Edinburgh.
- CPP
- Calendar of entries in the Papal registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland; Papal Petitions, 1893-, ed. W.H. Bliss, London.
- CSP
- Calendar of State Papers Relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots 1547-1603, ed J Bain, vol 1 (Edinburgh, 1898).
- CSSR, i
- Calendar of Scottish Supplications to Rome 1418-22, 1934, ed. E.R. Lindsay and A.I. Cameron, (Scottish History Society) Edinburgh.
- CSSR, ii
- Calendar of Scottish Supplications to Rome 1423-28, 1956, ed. A.I. Dunlop, (Scottish History Society) Edinburgh.
- CSSR, iii
- Calendar of Scottish Supplications to Rome 1428-32, 1970, ed. A.I. Dunlop; and I.B. Cowan, (Scottish History Society) Edinburgh.
- CSSR, iv
- Calendar of Scottish Supplications to Rome 1433-47, 1983, ed. A.I. Dunlop and D MacLauchlan, Glasgow.
- CSSR, v
- Calendar of Scottish Supplications to Rome 1447-71, 1997, ed. J. Kirk, R.J. Tanner and A.I. Dunlop, Edinburgh.
- Chron. Bower
- Scotichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English, 1987-99, D. E. R. Watt, Aberdeen.
- Chron. Wyntoun
- Original Chronicle of Andrew Wyntoun, 1903-14.
- DDARC
- Dundee District Archives and Record Centre
- ER
- The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, ed. J Stuart et al., Edinburgh 1878-1908.
- HMC
- Historic Manuscripts Commission
- MSS
- manuscripts
- NAS
- National Archives of Scotland (now known as National Records of Scotland)
- PKDA
- Perth and Kinross District Archive
- RCAHMS
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments (and Constructions?) of Scotland
- RMS
- Register of the Great Seal of Scotland.
- RMS i
- Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, i, 1306-1424, ed J Maitland Thomson (Edinburgh, 1882).
- RMS ii
- Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, ii, 1424-1513, ed J Balfour Paul (Edinburgh, 1882).
- RMS iii
- Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, iii, 1513-1546, eds J Balfour Paul and J M Thomson (Edinburgh, 1883).
- RPS
- Records of the Parliaments of Scotland
- RRS, II
- Regesta Regum Scottorum, Acts of William I (1165-1214), 1971, Edinburgh.
- RSS
- Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum, ed. M Livingstone et al., Edinburgh, 1908-.
- SAL
- Liber Cartarum Prioratus Sancti Andree in Scotia, 1841, ed. T. Thomson (Bannatyne Club), Edinburgh.
- SCA
- Stirling Council Archives
- SHS
- Scottish History Society
- Scotia pontificia
- Scotia pontificia papal letters to Scotland before the Pontificate of Innocent III, 1982, ed. R. Somerville, Oxford.
- StAUL
- St Andrews University Library