[5] On 28 September 1608, Murray chased Finlay Taylor, a baillie of the Canongate, with a drawn sword in the Abbey Close near Holyroodhouse.
[6] According to William Bowyer, Murray was "surveyor and builder" for the Earl of Dunbar's mansion on the site of Berwick Castle.
[8] King James gave orders for repairs to the royal palaces in Scotland in 1616, anticipating his visit in 1617.
At Falkland Palace, he was to re-roof the king's and queen's galleries overlooking the garden from the east quarter, make a bartisan or wall-walk on a new lead roof, and repair the whole palace, making repairs and new doorways and windows as required.
In February 1619 Murray received permission to demolish part of the remaining masonry adjacent to the north-west corner.
[14] Murray drew up plans for Parliament House in Edinburgh in 1633, and the building was constructed to his design over the following years,[3] finally being completed in 1639.