[1] When Mary of Guise was fatally ill in Edinburgh Castle, Saltoun, Lord James Stewart, and the Earl Marischal had dinner with her on 8 June 1560.
He was one of the lords who signed on 1 May 1570 the instructions given to Robert Pitcairn, Commendator of Dunfermline, as ambassador to England, asking Queen Elizabeth to declare support for the regime in Scotland, and for English troops.
[3] On 23 August 1570 Saltoun wrote with the Laird of Pitsligo from Rothiemay to the Earl of Morton with news of a ship arrived at Aberdeen and its passengers.
The Prior of Coldingham and Sir James Balfour were going to depart from Aberdeen in the "pink", while Lord Seton and Katherine Neville, Countess of Northumberland were going to take another boat.
[5] The contemporary chronicle, The Historie of James the Sext adds that the "pink" brought armour and firearms for six hundred men, seven cannons, with gunpowder and money for Huntly, who was the Queen's Lieutenant of the North.