Michael Gardiner (soldier)

[1] In June 1541 he was sent to Kelso Abbey to collect a broken bell and three brass pots to be melted down in the gun-foundry at Edinburgh Castle.

[5] Gardinar worked with John Chisholm in Edinburgh Castle making fireworks for Mary, Queen of Scots for the baptism of Prince James at Stirling in December 1566.

[6] During the Marian Civil War Gardiner and his son Robert sided with Regent Lennox who was based at Leith, against the supporters of Mary, Queen of Scots and his former colleagues who garrisoned Edinburgh Castle.

Robert Gardiner travelled to Perth, Dundee, and Broughty to buy iron, timber, and cannon balls, to be deployed in the Canongate.

In November Gardiner's assistant David Haliburton took a boat load of "bullettis", cannon balls, from Leith to Blackness Castle.

[9] In August 1572 Michael dismantled some of the artillery and shipped it to Stirling in six boats guarded by Captain Mitchell's company, while Robert Gardiner was sent to Berwick with the Regent's letter for Lord Hunsdon.

"[18] Other items mentioned in his will include his military clothing and weapons; a hat, spurs, and helmet, a whinger on a belt, a sword, a bag, a powder horn, armour (a harness), and a halberd.