Jerome Bowie

[3] Bowie joined the newly established household for the infant King James in March 1568, serving in the wine cellar at Stirling Castle.

[4] In February 1569, the ruler of Scotland, Regent Moray, bought a horse from Bowie, described as the Earl of Mar's servant, for £30, for the use of the king's tailor James Inglis.

[6] In June 1576 Bowie signed a receipt for new black clothes and hats given to him and four of the king's servants at Stirling, to improve their appearance while waiting at the royal table "when strangers are present".

[8] In March 1579 the comptroller of the king's household William Murray of Tullibardine told the Privy Council that he had commissioned and made a proclamation authorising Bowie's "visiting, tasting, and uptaking wines for his Majesty's house at reasonable prices".

The Provost of Edinburgh Archibald Stewart and others came to defend the merchants, but the Privy Council was not impressed and set prices for Bordeaux wine and "Hottopyis bind".

[12] Bowie and the "sugar man", probably Jacques de Bousie, bought drinking glasses and desert bowls for the feast at the baptism of Prince Henry in August 1594.

The record mentions that wine was logged in the household books and delivered to Jerome Bowie for the king's cellar and to John Bog for the queen.

[18] In 1599 an angry Edinburgh burgess James Forman entered the chamber of Anne of Denmark at Holyroodhouse, where she was talking to the Chancellor, John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose.

He complained about various policies, speaking on behalf of the community of Edinburgh with an interesting allusion to a threatened snail, and talked with the Chancellor about the wine impost.

[27] Jerome Bowie also acquired two houses on the south side of Edinburgh's Canongate which had belonged to a prominent stonemason, Gilbert Cleuch.

The treasurer's accounts record that beds were provided at Dunfermline for the queen's physician Martin Schöner, his man, and for "Jonet Kinloch and Jerie Bowie's wyffe".

He was probably involved in some of Ben Jonson's masques,[36] and seems to be the "young Bowie" that King James sent to Spain in 1623 with a message to Prince Charles and the Duke of Buckingham during the Spanish Match.