[2] Janet Fockart was married three times, to John Todd, in 1560 to the luxury merchant and magistrate William Fowler (d. 1572), with whom she had seven children, and to James Hathoway (d. 1579).
There were fine silk damasks for gowns, and woollen "friezes" for cloaks, serge for coats and women's riding clothes.
[12] In September 1584, she hosted a party of German tourists including Lupold von Wedel who went riding with her son, the poet William Fowler.
[14] Robert Bowes was lodged in the house in January 1592, and reported that it was being prepared for James VI and Anne of Denmark, who needed extra security because of the threat posed by the Earl of Bothwell.
[16] In the early 1590s Giacomo Castelvetro, an Italian writer who served James VI as a language tutor and secretary, lodged with them and Eleanor Bowes made friends with his wife, Isotta de Canonici, the widow of Thomas Erastus.
The first was from the Lord of Lindores, who had collaborated with her son the poet William Fowler to produce the Masque at the baptism of Prince Henry.
Lindores owed £600 and had left as a pledge a woman's gown made of cloth of silver and some gold buttons.
Many more people had borrowed money, pledging their jewelry, or lengths of costly fabric, or formally recording their obligations.