She had a long running dispute with Lord Robert Stewart, commendator of Whithorn over Cruggleton Castle and its lands.
[4] She was friendly with Patrick Vaus of Barnbarroch, who paid her 500 merks towards a royal pension she had from the incomes of Whithorn Priory in December 1582.
She wrote to him on 20 August 1583 from Perth calling him "brother", and asking him to pay her debt to an Edinburgh tailor, Nicoll Spens.
[6] She was paid substantial sums from the royal treasury, and may have been a leading figure in the queen's household, a role known as "hofmesterinde" at the Danish court.
[7] James VI came to Holyrood Palace on 25 July 1595 from Stirling Castle, after receiving a letter from Sir Robert Melville assuring him the queen was ill, on the testimony of the Mistress of Ochiltree and other gentlewomen.