Thomas Arthur (tailor)

[3] The published editions of the accounts by James Balfour Paul do not include the detail of the lining and secondary fabrics of costume, described in the original manuscripts in the National Archives of Scotland.

[6] In January 1540, Arthur made "play coats" of red and yellow taffeta, and a side cape for one of the players.

[7] These costumes were for an early performance of David Lindsay's "A Satire of the Three Estates" in the Great Hall of Linlithgow Palace.

[8] In February 1540 he made a bonnet to line the crown of Scotland which the goldsmith John Mosman had recently refurbished.

[11] He made clothes for the king's two sons, and mourning cloaks for ladies in waiting to wear at the funeral of Margaret Tudor in Perth in November 1541.

He entered into a legal dispute with George Maller, who was a glazier by trade, who had undertaken to train Arthur to be a player or "interluder" in the court revels of Henry VIII.