Frederick Mort, Renfrewshire, Cambridge County Geographies, London, Cambridge University Press, 1919, p. 3.
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Gli sceriffati ereditari erano Argyll, Bute, Banff, Caithness, Clackmannan, Cromarty, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Elgin, Fife, Kinross, Kirkcudbright (Stewartry), Linlithgow, Nairn, Orkney & Zetland, Peebles, Renfrew, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Sutherland, Stirling e Wigtown; quelli nominati a vita erano Perth, Forfar e Ayr; quelli la cui durata della carica era stabilita dal sovrano erano Aberdeen, Berwick, Edinburgh, Haddington, Inverness, Kincardine, Lanark e Ross Ann E. Whetstone, The Reform of the Scottish Sheriffdoms in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, in Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, vol. 9, n. 1, The North American Conference on British Studies, pp. 61–71, JSTOR4048219.