The saddles were covered in black cloth by the stable master Arthur Erskine of Blackgrange as part of the mourning for Mary's first husband Francis II of France.
[2] In July 1567 she ordered a foot mantle from Abercromby, to be made with black velvet with gold fringes and gilt buckles.
[3] In July 1567, Michael Gilbert, Nicol Edward, and Abercromby were sent as Edinburgh's commissioners to the coronation of James VI at Stirling.
[5] An account for saddler work for Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray in 1568 was probably from Abercromby; it includes covering stools with leather, mending saddles, and making dog collars.
[8] In September 1589 he was chosen by Edinburgh burgh council to be the craft representative and be one of the two teams of six men carry the canopy or "paill" over Anne of Denmark at her Entry and coronation.
[9] In June 1591, he made an incarnate red taffeta caparison for the king's horse, possibly for a masque at Tullibardine Castle.
The Riggs went to law over the purchase a ship called the Angel and its cargo of Norwegian timber by Harry Watson, a Scotsman based in Bergen.