He wrote to Mary of Guise from Edinburgh in July 1552, sending three pounds weight of crimson silk, gold and silver thread, and 24 ells of golden gauze.
[8] His cook, Ninian McCrechan, was censured by the town council for slandering the kirk minister John Knox on 8 April 1562.
He said in public on the High Street of Edinburgh that the Earls of Bothwell and Arran were agreed, and so Knox's time was run.
This was repayment for money advanced to decorate a cabinet room for Mary, Queen of Scots in Holyrood Palace.
[10] The queen's valet Servais de Condé had lined the cabinet room with 26 ells of a fabric called "Paris Green".
[11] The English diplomat Thomas Randolph mentions this cabinet as a space to which he was not admitted, where the queen withdrew to write letters and to weep.
[14] Joseph Riccio, a brother of Mary's servant David Rizzio ran away from Edinburgh towards England in January 1566, taking money belonging to courtiers including Cagnioli.