[10] One of the chaplains, William Turner, was compensated £10 Scots for loss of rental income when the building was used at the entries of Madeleine of Valois and Mary of Guise to Scotland.

[11] In August 1539 cannon and other munitions captured from pirates by the royal ship the Unicorn were stored in the King's Wark.

Chisholm shipped cannon and gun carriages from Leith and Dunbar north to Aberdeen and back in October 1562 during operations against the Earl of Huntly.

[20] Chisholm arranged the firework display for the baptism of her son Prince James at Stirling Castle in December 1566.

The fireworks were made in Leith and shipped to Stirling in great secrecy, carried to the castle at the dead of night "for feir of knowledge thairof."

Accounts of expenses made by the Chancellor John Maitland of Thirlestane include the preparation of a ship, the James Royall of Ayr, hired from Robert Jameson, with a payment to Chisholm of £28 for "dressing, mounting and putting the ordinance on board.

[26] The ceremony of the reception at Leith and the King's Wark had been carefully planned the previous September, when it was thought the queen's arrival was imminent.

[27] On the day, James Elphinstone gave his speech in Latin to the king and queen who were seated on thrones inside the hall.

[29] In 1550 his lease included a waste unoccupied area and garden to the south of the "Kingis Werk", and between the King's Wark and the lands of John Boyman and the deceased Alexander Lyell, bounded to the west by the lane to the Shore and the sea beach on the east, and encircled with a stone wall.

[30] John Dalmahoy elder and younger had various roles in Leith, and helped at the King's Wark when building supplies and munitions were shipped to the fortress island of Inchkeith in 1561 and 1566.

[32] By 1598, some of the other spaces in and around the King's Wark were rented by merchants, including James Cowdane who occupied some "rowmes" within the walled area.

[37] Lord Walden visited in August 1612 to refresh himself after crossing from Burntisland before continuing to John Killoch's house in the Canongate.

[38] In 1612 Lindsay planned a stone arched open arcade facing the shore with seating for merchants to be the burse or exchange of Leith.

[39] Lindsay built a "fyne gallerye ... reised upoun arches and pilleris of friestone" and paved underneath with "hewne stone".

[45] A tavern was also included in the prestigious Gladstone's Land tenement in this period, managed by Isobel Johnston for the owners.