Michael Durham

[1] He was a witness to the king's will, a legal document made at Falkland appointing tutors for Mary, Queen of Scots.

[7] After the battle of Pinkie in September 1547, Michael Durham accompanied the English commander Andrew Dudley from Leith to Broughty Castle.

Henry Durham, who was a retainer of Lord Gray, and Captain of Broughty, surrendered the castle to Dudley.

[14] In March 1557, the English diplomat Nicholas Wotton described Durham as a spy for France and Mary of Guise, receiving a pension from her of 300 crowns.

[19] A translator of Lesley's Latin History wrote that the common people thought "the king sooner died through medicine, than otherwise he would have done".

[20] Raphael Holinshed and David Calderwood wrote of reports that James V was "disquieted by some unkindlie medicine".