[5] John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar, built a very large mansion (Alloa House) in 1710 that incorporated the tower as its annexe.

[11] Some sources say the French ambassador Michel de Castelnau came with the Bishop of Ross to Alloa to congratulate Mary on her safe delivery.

[15] A chronicle mentions that she left her servants at Newhaven, and took a small boat to Alloa, crewed by "simple men of seafare trade".

[16] According to George Buchanan and the "Book of Articles", the crew were "notorious pirates", associates of the Earl of Bothwell including William and Edmund Blackadder.

[17][18] Mary wrote from Alloa on 31 July to Annabell Murray's brother-in-law, the Laird of Abercairney, on behalf of the evicted widow of one of his tenants.

[19] Claude Nau wrote that Mary's only companions were her ladies in waiting and the Earl of Mar, and Darnley only made a brief visit.

[25] James VI and Anne of Denmark gave the bride clothes,[26] and wedding celebrations were held at Alloa following the marriage at Holyroodhouse.

[27] One version of the Memoir of David Moysie mentions that the King and Queen were "in Alloway the earle of Mars house at the bankett at Yuill and at Nursemes".

[29] Festivities, customarily held at a bridegroom's family home known as the infare,[30] were mentioned by one of the invited guests, the courtier John Elphinstone.

[31] Costume was bought for a masque at Alloa in which Anne of Denmark performed, dressed in silk taffeta and "gold tock", a kind of tinsel fabric.