Dancers include Master Robert Schaw who provided medicinal recipes to the queen's apothecary William Foular,[4] and appears to have been a physician serving the women of the court.
[5] Perhaps to widen the appeal of the poem for a court audience that may have include the subjects of the satire, Dunbar introduces himself as a dancer who clumsily sheds a slipper or panton.
[8] In April 1513 an English diplomat, Nicholas West, came to Linlithgow Palace and was met by John Sinclair, who conveyed him to Margaret Tudor.
As a New Year's Day gift in 1507 she received a brooch with an image of Saint Michael set with a diamond.
[12] In June 1508 she helped with preparations for a dance at Holyroodhouse to conclude the tournament of the Wild Knight and the Black Lady.