He had strict instructions from Margaret Tudor to hold the castle keys and set a password every night for the King's guards.
[1] In 1533 Lord Erskine was paid for work building new park and garden ditches and dykes at Stirling Castle.
Erskine returned to London where Cromwell's servant John Gostwyk gave him a gift of silver plate, £20 to his companion the Lyon King of Arms, David Lyndsay, and 80 crowns to the Rothesay Herald.
[6] After James married Madeleine of Valois, Mar took receipt of Dunbar Castle, which was formerly garrisoned by John Stewart, Duke of Albany for France.
Their daughter Margaret Erskine was a mistress of King James V of Scotland and the mother of Regent Moray, she later married Robert Douglas of Lochleven.