Nicolas Roy (mason)

[7] Other French craftsmen working at the Scottish royal palaces include the woodcarver and metal-worker Andrew Mansioun and the painter Pierre Quesnel.

[10] There is also a payment in the Treasurer's Accounts for the wages of the "French maister maison in Falkland" since his arrival in Scotland on 20 April 1539 to the end of August 1540.

The accounts do not specify exactly what work Nicolas Roy and his workshop undertook, but they may have carved the portrait medallions or roundels that decorate the internal façades of the courtyard.

[12] During the works at Falkland, the French masons made two excursions to St Andrews to advise on the building of a new college under the patronage of Cardinal David Beaton.

[13] Another French stone mason, Moyse or Mogin Martin, first employed at Dunbar Castle by the Duke of Albany, worked at Falkland until his death in March 1538.