ANDERSON, Joseph, LL.D., Keeper of the National Museum, Edinburgh - "Introduction to Orkneyinga Saga"
BALFOUR, David, of Balfour and Trenaby - "Odal Rights and Feudal Wrongs: A Memorial for Orkney" Edinburgh, 1859
BARRY, The Rev. George, D.D. - "History of the Orkney Islands" (Edinburgh, 1805);
with Notes by the Rev. James Headrick. Edinburgh, 1808, quarto;
3rd edition, Kirkwall, 1867.
van BASSAN, James - "The History of the Saint-Clairs"
BELLENDEN, John - "Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum, per me, Jo Ben, Ibidem Colentem, in Anno, 1529"
BRAND, The Rev. John - "A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland-Firth, and Caithness".
Edinburgh, 1701, reprinted 1811 and 1883.
BURKE, C.B., L.L.D., Sir Bernard "A genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage". London, 1884:
BURKE, "Landed Gentry"
CALDER, James Trail - Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness From the Tenth Century". Second edition, Wick, 1887.
CLOUSTON, M.D., The Rev. Charles - "Guide to the Orkney Islands" Edinburgh, 1862
CRAVEN, The Rev. J.B. "History of the Episcopal Church in Orkney, 1688-1882, 1662-1688, and 1558-1662". Kirkwall, 1883, 1893, and 1897.
Reprinted by Peace (1883) ASIN: B00089RRG8
CURSITER, James W., F.S.A., Scot - List of Books and Pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland. Kirkwall, 1894
DENNISON, Walter Traill - "The Orcadian Sketch-book: Being Traits of Old Orkney Life, written partly in the Orkney dialect". Kirkwall, 1880
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, VOL 3. Edited by Sidney Lee, London, 1897. Articles "Sinclair".
Dictionary of National Biography:
ISBN-10: 0543883167 ISBN-13: 978-0543883162 (Vol 32)
ISBN-10: 1402170696 ISBN-13: 978-1402170690 (Vol 15)
ISBN-10: 0543868567 ISBN-13: 978-0543868565 (VOl 52)
EDMONDSTON, Thomas - "An Etymological Glossary of the Shetland and Orkney Dialect, with some derivations of names of places in Shetland" Edinburgh, 1866
GIFFORD, Thomas of Busta "An Historical Description of the Zetland Islands in the year 1733, with an appendix of illustrative documents ". Edinburgh, 1879
GORRIE, Daniel - "Summers and Winters in the Orkneys". London,1868
GRANT, Francis James, W.S. (Carrick Pursuivant of Arms) - "The county families of the Zetland Islands: Being genealogies of local families". Lerwick, 1893
HAY - Father Richard Augustin, Prior of St.Pieremont - "Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn, including the Chartulary of Rosslyn", Edited by James Maidment. Edinburgh, 1835
HENDERSON, JOHN, W.S. - "Caithness Family History" Edinburgh. 1884
HIBBERT, Samuel, M.D. - "A Description of the Shetland Isles, comprising an account of their scenery, antiquities, and superstitions ". Edinburgh and London, 1862
JAMIESON, John - "An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, illustrating the words in their different significations by examples from ancient and modern writers;
", 2 vols. Edinburgh 1808 quarto
Publisher: Printed at the University Press for W. Creech (1808) ASIN: B0006ATBP4
Two Supplemental vols., 1825. Second edition, revised, etc., 4 vols. Paisley, 1879-82, quarto
An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language: Supplement to Jamieson's Scottish dictionary with memoir, and introduction
JOHNSON, The Rev, A.H., M.A. - "The Normans in Europe" (Epoch series). London,1877
KELTIE, John Scott - "History of the Scottish Highlands,: Highland clans and Highland regiments". Edinburgh, 1885
LAING the Elder, Samuel - "Sturleson's Heimskringla: Translated from the Icelandic", 3 vols. 1844, octavo
LOW, George - "Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Shetland in 1774" Kirkwall, 1879, octavo
MACKENZIE, James - "The General Grievances and Oppressions of the Isles of Orkney and Shetland". Reprint. Edinburgh, 1836, octavo
MAXWELL, C.H. - "Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland": cited as "Scottish Wars". Edinburgh, 1852
MICHELL, Thomas, C.B. - "History of the Scottish Expedition to Norway in 1612". Christiania, 1886
MORRISON, The Hon. Leonard Allison, A.M. - "History of the Sinclair Family in Europe and America for 1100 Years". Boston, Massachusetts, 1896
NISBET, Alexander - "A System of Heraldry, Speculative and Practical", 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1722-1742, folio
ORKNEYINGA SAGA and Magnus Saga with Appendices. Edited by Gudbrand Vigfusson, M.A. Icelandic Text; Rolls edition. London, 1887.
Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney: Translated by Hermann Palsson, and Paul Edwards (1981), Penguin Classics, ISBN-10: 0140443835 ISBN-13: 978-0140443837
PLANCHE, James Robinson - The Conqueror and his Companions, 1874.
PETERKIN, Alexander -"Rentals of the Ancient Earldom and Bishopric of Orkney" Edinburgh, 1890
PETERKIN, Alexander - "Notes on Orkney and Shetland" Edinburgh, 1822, octavo
SCOTTISH ANTIQUARY, The - A quarterly magazine, price 1 shilling, Edinburgh.
SCOTT, The Rev. Hew, D.D. - "Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; or, the Succession of the Ministers in the Parish Churches of Scotland from 1560 to the Present Time". Edinburgh, 1870, quarto
SCOTT, SIR WALTER - Tales of a Grandfather - Stories from the History of Scotland. 1828.
Last reprinted 2007. ISBN-10: 1432673394 ISBN-13: 978-1432673390
SIBBALD, Sir Robert, Knight, M.D. - "Description of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, by Robert Monteith, of Egilsea and Gairsay, 1633. " Edinburgh, 1045,octavo
SINCLAIR, Thomas, M.A. - "Caithness events: A discussion of Captain Kennedy's historical narrative, and an account of the Broynach earls, to which is added a supplement of emendations of 1899" Wick, 1894.
SINCLAIR, Thomas, M.A. - "The Sinclairs of England" London, 1887.
SKENE, William Forbes - "Celtic Scotland - A History of Ancient Alban Three Volumes; Volume I: History and Ethnology, Volume II: Church and Culture, Volume III: Land and People", 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1876-80, octavo
Publisher: David Douglas (1886) ASIN: B000VHHSSE & ASIN: B000ZMAT4U
SMITH, William Henry - "The St.Clair Papers: The Life and Public Services of Arthur St.Clair, Soldier of the Revolutionary War, President of the Continental Congress, and Governor of the North-Western Territory," Cincinnati, U.S.A., 1882.
TORFAEUS, Thormodus - "Ancient History of Orkney, Caithness, and the North" Translated by Alexander Pope, Minister of Reay. Wick, 1866, duodecimo
TUDOR, John R. - "The Orkneys and Shetland: their Past and Present State. " London, 1883
TYTLER, Patrick Fraser - "History of Scotland", 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1864
WALLACE, James, M.D., F.R.S. - "An Account of the Islands of Orkney" London, 1700, octavo
ZENO the Younger, Nicolo - "The Discovery of the Islands of Frislanda, Eslanda, Engronelanda, Estotilanda, and Icaria, made by two brothers of the Zeno family: viz., Messire Nicolo, the Chevalier, and Messire Antonio". With a map of the said Islands. Venice, 1558. Translated, London, 1873, by R.H. Major, F.S.A., etc., for the Hakluyt Society
reprinted by Mercat Press (1973) ASIN: B000PSQ2ZY
reprinted by Hyperion Books (December 1989) ISBN-10: 0901824259, ISBN-13: 978-0901824257
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Mercat Press; Facsimile of 1805 Ed edition (1974), ISBN-10: 0901824321, ISBN-13: 978-0901824325
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reprinted by W. Brown (1883) ASIN: B00085SJQE
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: 107th Edition (2003), ISBN-10: 0971196621, ISBN-13: 978-0971196629
Caithness Reprints (1978), ISBN-10: 0950288802 ISBN-13: 978-0950288802
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Publisher: A. and C. Black (1866) ASIN: B0006AG0R6
T.G. Stevenson (1879) , ASIN: B00089B732; Reprinted by and for J. Nichols (1886) , ASIN: B00089T5LS
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T. and J. Manson (1893), ASIN: B00087OWTK
Publisher: T.G. Stevenson (1835), ASIN: B000886IFK
Reprinted by Grand Lodge of Scotland (August 2002), ISBN-10: 0902324632 ISBN-13: 978-0902324633
Publisher: D. Douglas (1884), ASIN: B00087VFRC
Publisher: A. Constable and Co.; [etc., etc.] (1822) ASIN: B00089610Q
Publisher: T and J Manson (1891) ASIN: B000KL43BG (hardback)
Publisher: Manson (1931) ASIN: B0008CBCHK, ASIN: B000P8X7CK (paperback)
Publisher: AMS Press; A new edition carefully revised and collated edition (1966) ASIN: B0006C0MKA & ASIN: B0007FEFTK
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Publisher: A. Fullarton (1877) ASIN: B00087CUOE
Publisher: W. MacKenzie; A new ed. ... illustrated edition (1885) ASIN: B00085C3R0
Heimskringla or the Lives of the Norse Kings by Snorre Sturlason, edited by Erling Monsen (2004), ISBN-10: 0766186938 ISBN-13: 978-0766186934
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Publisher: Laing and Forbes (1836) ASIN: B00086WOQY
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Publisher: L: 1886 1st ed. 189p; illus. (1886) ASIN: B000KILWBI
Reprinted by Higginson Book Co (1989) ISBN-10: 0832810746, ISBN-13: 978-0832810749
Publisher: J. MacEuen (1722) ASIN: B000KL40D2
Reprinted by and for Alex. Lawrie; 2nd ed edition (1804) ASIN: B0008A3DGK
Last reprinted Kessinger Publishing 2007 ISBN-10: 0548801320 ISBN-13: 978-0548801321
Publisher: John Moir, Printer (1820) ASIN: B000IZG5SS
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Updated periodically. Publisher: Hyperion Books (December 1988) ISBN-10: 0715204955 ISBN-13: 978-0715204955
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Publisher: W. Rae; 2. ed edition (1899) ASIN: B0008BMZS6
Publisher: Trubner and Co (1887) ASIN: B000J2YAUU
Reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, LLC (2007) ISBN-10: 1432550632, ISBN-13: 978-1432550639
Reprinted by Books for Libraries Press (1971) ISBN-10: 0836957547 ISBN-13: 978-0836957549
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (June 25, 2007) ISBN-10: 0548362785 ISBN-13: 978-0548362785
Publisher: Peter Reid [etc.] (1866) ASIN: B00089P03U
Publisher: E. Stanford; [etc., etc.] (1883) ASIN: B0008596H0
Reprinted in 9 Volumes by Willilam Mackenzie (1909) ASIN: B000KL1UKS
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