James Cockie

[2] In 1558, he made and engraved a clock case for Mary of Guise and also worked in Edinburgh castle casting a cannon called a "double falcon" with the Queen's arms and motto.

[4] At the Scottish Reformation, in 1560 Cockie gave evidence to Henri Cleutin and Jacques de la Brosse against the Protestant Lords of the Congregation.

According to his sworn statement, the Earl of Arran had ordered him to come to his lodging and requested that he engrave a signet or seal matrix with the arms of Mary, Queen of Scots and Francis II of France and irons for making coins.

[14][15] Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, the author of a chronicle, mentioned that Cockie minted coins in Edinburgh castle, "ane that struik the cunzie callit Cok".

[17] The burgh council acknowledged this, noting that his father had occupied "the westmost goldsmith booth, except one, lying under the old Tolbooth on the south side".

[19] The National Museums of Scotland has a jug or ewer made of rock crystal with silver-gilt mounts which are thought to be the work of James Cockie and his workshop.

[20] The ewer mounts were made in Edinburgh in the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots and the lid was engraved with the heraldry of John Erskine and Annabell Murray, Countess of Mar.

[22] Elizabeth also gave Mar a silver and mother of pearl basin and laver during his embassy to London in 1601 when the secret correspondence was arranged.