Barbara Hamilton (courtier)

Her servant were given new clothes, David Pook, her sumpter man or groom, was dressed in grey and Jonet Kelly had a gown of Paris black.

Barbara's clothes and safeguard riding skirts were made by John Anderson and the Queen's tailor.

[2][3] There was a plague scare at the Scottish court so for a time she lodged with three other gentlewomen, their servants, and a cook and a laundress in Alexander Guthrie's house in the Castlehill of Edinburgh.

Mary of Guise inspected the "robe royal" and requested the lining be replaced with better quality taffeta supplied by James Barroun.

Regent Arran's lodging was decorated with royal tapestry taken out of storage in Edinburgh Castle by Malcolm Gourlay.

[6][7][8] She lived at Huntly Castle but seems to have returned to Hamilton and Linlithgow often during her father's regency, and was bought a hat in November 1550.

Clothes were also made for her sister Anne Hamilton who was set to join the household of Mary of Guise.

[17] Their children included: According to Nicol Burne, writing in 1581, in 1561 John Knox aspired to marry Barbara Hamilton for her royal connections.

Some of these jewels were pledged for debts, as was a gold "tablet" or locket set with nine diamonds and a ruby with a pendant pearl, a gold bracelet with nine rubies, and another tablet which opened with leaves on which the inscription "Obsecro Te Sancta Maria Mater Dei Amen" was engraved and highlighted with white enamel.

She left her daily wearing clothes and two feather beds to her servant Elspeth or Elizabeth Binning.

Regent Lennox made life difficult for the family at Boghall and Cumbernauld Castle.