Andrew Melville of Garvock

He brought her jewels, one piece from the Edinburgh goldsmith James Mosman and other items from her cabinet at Holyrood Palace.

[6] Melville was one of the witnesses of a contract made at the wedding of Mary's Scottish secretary Gilbert Curll and Barbara Mowbray on 23 October 1585.

[7] Mary's keeper Amias Paulet noted that Melville disliked the French secretary Claude Nau.

[11] Melville was brought from Chartley Castle to rejoin the household at Fotheringhay in October 1586, with a daughter of Bastian Pagez, and his personal servant.

[13] At Fotheringhay, Mary spoke to him after leaving her chamber on the way to the great hall for her execution, giving him instructions and messages for her son James VI of Scotland.

[14][13] Another narrative of the execution says that Melville broke down at the burden of this charge and knelt before Mary on the way to the great hall, wailing loudly.

[18] Mary had asked Andrew to take the bed hangings and some of her other belongings back to Scotland and her son James VI after her execution, including portraits of her ancestors and a piece of unicorn horn.

[19] In April 1603, the secretary of Anne of Denmark, William Fowler recorded some of the emblems or devices embroidered by Mary on bed curtains at Holyrood Palace.

Elizabeth Curll hoped for a payment, and Bastian Pagez and his wife Christine Hog wanted accommodation for their seven children.

In May 1588 an English diplomat Richard Wigmore went to Scotland and was instructed to discover any secret messages that Mary had sent to James VI.

The accident was blamed on a storm or on the drunken incompetence of the sailors,[27] but also was drawn into ideas of witchcraft and malevolence current during the North Berwick witch trials.

[30] Melville received a pension from the lands of Crossraguel Abbey, and in June 1590 his servants James Boswall and David Ardeis witnessed his receipt for payment.

[31] In October 1590 he made an inventory of silver plate used in the king and queen's household with Jerome Bowie, the Master of Wine Cellar.

[37] It has been suggested that Andrew Melville preserved a manuscript of the Scottish version of the history of Mary's times composed by John Lesley, Bishop of Ross.