[1] The English diplomat Thomas Randolph said that David Boswell was an "inveterate Papist", but his seven sons were Protestants.
The young James VI of Scotland declared he was on the side of the Wemyss family, while playing a game at Linlithgow Palace.
[5] He was prosperous, and lent 1000 merks to James VI in September 1589, to help finance his marriage to Anne of Denmark.
[6] The king wrote for the loan on 2 September from Falkland Palace, because of the "hastier arrival of our dearest spouse, than either we looked for, or can have any time for the preparation thereof".
[7] James Fenton, the comptroller clerk, made out a receipt on 17 September 1589 for £666 received at Leith from the Laird's brother, the king's surgeon George Boswell.