Paul 1906، صفحة 121, line 11. "I. Richard Preston, third son of Richard Preston of Whitehill, was attached to the royal household, and in 1591 is styled 'page'."
Paul 1906، صفحة 356, line 16. "The success of the Raid of Ruthven forced King James VI. to sign an order for his departure in 1582 ..."
Crawfurd 1716، صفحة 92. "He was educated at the Court, and being of an agreeable and winning Deportment, he soon grew into his Majesty's special favour, attaining first the honour of knighthood, and e're long was made one of the Grooms of the Bed Chamber."
Birch & Williams 1848، صفحة 92. "... a pageant which was an elephant with a castle on its back; and it proved a right partus elephantis for it was long a coming; til the running was well entered into and was then as long a creeping about the tilt-yard, all which time the running was intermitted."
Paul 1906، صفحة 121, line 29. "He married, through the influence of the King, in 1614, Elizabeth Butler, widow of Theobald, Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim, and daughter and only surviving child of Thomas, tenth Earl of Ormonde and Ossory."
Carte 1851، صفحة cxv, line 22. "... the king obliged the earl of Ormond to marry his daughter to Sir Richard Preston, a Scots gentleman who had been bred up with him and was highly in his favour."
Cokayne 1895، صفحة 150, line 5. "She [Elizabeth Preston] who was b. [born] 25 July 1615 ..."
Lodge 1789، صفحة 43, line 28. "He was granted in Ward 26 May 1623 to Richard, Earl of Desmond, and by order of K. James I educated under the eye of Doctor George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury ..."
Paul 1906، صفحة 122, line 15. "Lord Dingwall's wife, Elizabeth Butler, died in Wales 10 October 1628 ..."
