James Stewart, Commendator of Kelso and Melrose

In April 1532 the king's wardrobe servant and pursemaster Harry Kemp spent £20 Scots on the expenses of keeping the infant and his nurse's wages.

[3] Like other members of the Scottish royal family, James Stewart was granted an income from monastic lands, as Commendator of Kelso and Melrose.

[4] In 1541 James V wrote to Cardinal Ghinucci in Rome to obtain permission to restructure the landholding system of the estates of Kelso and Melrose.

[8] He wrote a letter to his step-mother Mary of Guise from Melrose, apparently in 1545, discussing the business of feuing and teinds on her jointure lands of Selkirk and Ettrick.

[10] In August 1548 his half brothers John Stewart, Commendator of Coldingham and Lord Robert sailed for France from Dumbarton with Mary, Queen of Scots.

In March 2021 one of his seal matrices, as Commendator of Kelso of Melrose, showing his royal arms with a "bar sinister" of illegitimacy, was acquired by the National Museum of Scotland.