[3] In 1613 he was ordered to go to Berwick-upon-Tweed to collect paperwork belonging to the king from Roger Widdrington and the paymaster (and former diplomat) George Nicholson.
[6][7] In October 1615 King James ordered John Auchmoutie to provide tapestry to Lord Erskine to furnish two rooms in Stirling Castle.
[10] In June 1621 an Edinburgh merchant John Murray of Romanno was ordered by the Privy Council to deliver furnishings belonging to the king to Auchmoutie.
[12] The king had instructed the treasurer, the Earl of Mar, that the Honours of Scotland should stay in Edinburgh Castle, and an inventory should be made of tapestry and silver plate in Auchmoutie's keeping.
[14] In 1624 he petitioned the king for better pay for the four tapestry keepers and workers in Scotland, and the appointment of Martin Leache as a replacement for the deceased Nicolas Elmar.
[15] After the death of James VI and I, John Auchmoutie and others continued to draw salaries as grooms of his bedchamber of in Scotland.
He travelled to Heidelberg in April 1613 with Princess Elizabeth after her marriage to Frederick V of the Palatinate, ranked in the accounts with Patrick Abercromby.
[20] John Chamberlain mentions an Auchmoutie (who had been in Padua and Venice) as one of the "most principal and lofty" of ten "high" dancers, five English, five Scottish, in the medley mask, The Irish Masque of Ben Jonson, performed during celebrations at the wedding of Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and Frances Howard in December 1613.
The twelve masquers included Prince Charles, Buckingham, the Earl of Montgomerie, the Captain of the Guards and his brother, Sir Thomas Howard, Maynard, Abercromby, and Auchmoutie, and others.