Selby asked Fowler, who was then living in Aldersgate Street in London, to pass his compliments to Roger Aston, an English courtier of James VI of Scotland.
[3] Around this time, Fowler was mentioned in letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, sent to the French ambassador Michel de Castelnau which were encoded in cipher.
He wrote to Francis Walsingham with Scottish news on 5 May 1588 including the arrival of Lord Maxwell at Dundee, who passed into the country in disguise with "a plaid about him, like a wayfaring man".
[5] In September 1589 the English ambassador in Edinburgh William Ashby asked him to send food for the welcoming party for Anne of Denmark, the new queen of Scotland.
[7] In January 1591 James VI wanted Selby to apprehend John Dickson, who had killed his father, and was living at Horkley near Norham.
James VI sent David Seton of Tranent, who knew the North Berwick witches to England to help round up fugitives.