Patrick Vans, Lord Barnbarroch

James VI sent a Latin letter to Frederick II of Denmark recommending his ambassadors and hoping to receive a written answer.

Barnbarroch wrote a journal of this mission, mentioning his arrival at Elsinore on 8 June 1587 and their stay with Richard Wedderburn.

When they reached Antvorskov, with a wagon train provided by the king, David Myrtone, a relation of the Laird of Cambo in Fife, was sent ahead to the Chancellor Niels Kaas because he could speak German.

Kaas told them that Frederick II was ill with toothache, and they spoke to Manderup Parsberg and Henrik Below, saying that only had commission to speak with the king.

[3] Richard Douglas heard in August 1587 that the ambassadors had returned, and Elizabeth was promised to Archduke Mathias (she married Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg).

[4] When the ships conveying Anne of Denmark to Scotland in October 1589 were driven back by storms, James VI decided to send a special embassy to fetch her, Vans was named one of the principal ambassadors for that purpose, and, when the king resolved himself to embark, was especially chosen to accompany him.

According to William Wallace of Failford, James VI described the Falcon as a little ship to Anna of Denmark's mother, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.

In December 1593, he was appointed to a committee to audit the account of money spent by the Chancellor, John Maitland of Thirlestane, on the royal voyages.

She wanted her daughter, who was in Edinburgh, to buy velvet for a cloak to match a doublet and skirt, with a small "champ" or fielded pattern.

She wrote to the steward at Barnbarroch, George Vaus, to instruct him to shear the sheep when the weather was right, to compel the farm servants to work at the mill by threatening to sell their goods, and see that Jonet MacDowall was spinning wool, some of the wool should be used for a new table cloth for her extending dining table.

[11] In September 1587 Vaus gave her and her factor William Dunbar rights to manage his rents and crops for three years for the 10,000 Scots that he owed her.