Thomas Somerset, 1st Viscount Somerset

[3] Somerset was sent to Scotland with Charles Percy by the Privy Council to notify James VI and I of the death of Elizabeth I.

[5] Somerset argued with a Scottish courtier William Murray of Abercairny about this role at York in June 1603.

[6] On 1 January 1604, he danced at Hampton Court in The Masque of Indian and China Knights.

[7] In November 1604, Somerset fought with a Scottish aristocrat John Stewart, Master of Orkney in the Baloon or "balowne" Court at Whitehall Palace.

[8] Their argument followed on an incident when Somerset accompanied the Duke of Holstein and the Master of Orkney to the Queen's apartments, and as the gentlemen were at the door of her Privy Chamber, accused each other of pushing and shoving.