James Hommyll

[1] Bertraham had a substantial house on the Royal Mile, used, after his death, as a lodging for the Spanish ambassador Pedro de Ayala in 1496.

[2] In 1474 Hommyll lined a blue gown for the king with cloth called "tartare" supplied by Issabell Williamsone.

[4] It has been suggested that the tailor was one of the favourites of James III who were executed at Lauder Bridge in 1482 during the crisis following the invasion of Scotland by the English,[5] but his pension was paid for a number of years after that date.

[13] On 26 November 1504 four African people who had been at Dunfermline Palace, who were recorded in the royal accounts as "Ethiopians", were lodged in his house, probably including Ellen More and her sister Margaret.

[14] Hommyll also hosted a Portuguese man who was escorting the African people, and two horses and other animals belonging to the king.

[18] In January 1508 he supplied gold leaf to the king's painter,[19] a Flemish artist known as Piers who may have painted the portrait of James IV now at Abbotsford House.

[20] James Hommyll and his wife Helen owned a property on the south side of the High Street in Edinburgh, located within a tenement belonging to Lord Borthwick.

[21] In September 1511 Hommyll received compensation from Janet Lyell, wife of the baker Robert Anderson, for the burning of his house.

A large part of Halyburton's business was exchanging Scottish primary products for Flanders luxury goods.