[4] Moncreiff, Alexander Preston, with a Highland practitioner recorded as the "Irland leeche", George Boswell from Perth, and an Edinburgh apothecary Robert Craig attended the Earl of Atholl.
[5] He died on 25 April 1579 at Kincardine after a suspicious illness following a banquet hosted by the Countess of Mar at Stirling Castle.
[9] He helped the poet Alexander Hume back to health, who subsequently wrote and published Ane Epistle to Maister Gilbert Montcrief.
On 10 February 1594, he was appointed to attend Anna of Denmark at Stirling Castle, when she gave birth to Prince Henry, with Martin Schöner and Gilbert Primrose, the apothecary Alexander Barclay, and the midwife, who was probably Jonet Kinloch.
[10] In September 1596, with the Edinburgh merchant Clement Cor and kirk minister Robert Bruce he interviewed a woman from Nokwalter in Perth, Christian Stewart, who was accused of causing the death of Patrick Ruthven by witchcraft.