Peter Saltonstall

The border official John Carey heard that Saltonstall assumed the name "Courtney" when he passed through Berwick-upon-Tweed and wore mean clothing, but carried a "very rich suit of apparel".

The English border official at Berwick, John Carey was sceptical about the news and it was thought the pair might be Jesuits on a secret mission.

[6] His father had been involved with Scots in London in the 1590s, "Alderman Salkingstone" delivered letters from Colonel William Stewart to Archibald Douglas in September 1590.

King James sent Saltonstall to the Duke of Savoy in Turin in 1612 accompanying the ambassador Henry Wotton with a gift of ten ambling gelding horses.

Wotton was in no hurry to return from Turin, and according to John Chamberlain Saltonstall got back to London first and delivered his messages, so doing the "best part of his errand for him".

The other equerries were; Robert Osbourne, Thomas Metham, Sigismund Zinzan, John Carelton, George Digbie, Roger Fielding, Gabriel Hippisley, and William Sanderson.

The equerries of the late Anne of Denmark were Edward Bushell (who married a sister of Mary Gargrave), John Gill, Gregory Fenner, and Maurice Drummond.