| Primary |
| Acta Dominorum Auditorum of Causes and Complaints, 1466-94, ed. T.Thomson
(London 1839) |
| Acta Dominorum Concilii in Civil Causes, 1478-1495, ed. T Thomson (Edinburgh
1839) |
| Acta Dominorum Concilii in Civil Causes, 1496-1501, ed. Neilson & Paton
(Edinburgh 1918) |
| Acta Dominorum Concilii 1501-1503, ed. J.A. Clyde, Stair Society Vol. VIII |
| Acta Dominorum Concilii 1532-1533, ed. I.H. Shearer, Stair Society Vol. XIV |
| Acts of the Lords of Council in Public Affairs 1501-1554: Selections from the Acta
Dominorum Concilii, ed. R.K. Hannay (Edinburgh 1932) |
| Balfour's Practicks, Stair Society Vols. III and IV |
| The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, eds. T. Thomson and C. Innes
(Edinburgh 1814-75) |
| Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, Vol. II, ed. J. Balfour Paul (Edinburgh
1984) |
| Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, Vol. II, ed. J.Balfour Paul &
J.M. Thomson (Edinburgh 1984) |
| Scotichronicon, Walter Bower, ed. D.E.R. Watt (Aberdeen 1987-) |
| The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland 1532-1943. ed. Sir Francis Grant (Edinburgh 1944) |
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| Secondary |
| An Introduction to Scottish Legal History. Stair Society Vol. XX |
| Cooper Rt. Hon. Lord "The Central Courts after 1532" Stair Society Vol. XX |
| Donaldson G. Scotland- James V-James VII (Edinburgh 1990) |
| Duncan A.A.M. "The Central Courts before 1532" Stair Society Vol. XX |
| Dunlop A.I. The Life and Times of James Kennedy, Bishop of St. Andrews
(Edinburgh 1950) |
| Hannay R.K. The College of Justice Stair Society Supplementary Volume I |
| Lynch M. Scotland- A New History (London 1991) |
| MacDougall N. James III (Edinburgh 1982) |
| MacDougall N. James IV (Edinburgh 1989) |
| MacFarlane L. William Elphinstone and the Kingdom of Scotland (Aberdeen 1983) |
| MacMillan A.R.G. The Evolution of the Scottish Judiciary (Edinburgh 1941) |
| MacQueen H.L. "Jurisdiction in Heritage and the Lords of Council and Session
after 1532" Stair Society Miscellany II |
| Nicholson R. Scotland- The Later Middle Ages (Edinburgh 1989) |
| Philipson N.T. "Scottish Whigs and the Reform of the Court of Session" Stair
Society Vol. XXXVII |
| Sources and Literature of Scots Law. Stair Society Vol. I. |