Treasurer of Scotland

[4] In February 1599 the Privy Council declared that the Treasurer would administer this English subsidy, spending it on clothes for the royal family and the household of Prince Henry.

[5] In previous years the goldsmith Thomas Foulis and cloth merchant Robert Jousie accounted this money.

[6] All four offices were held by the same person from 1610 onwards, but their separate titles survived the effective merging of their functions in 1635.

The income, of rents and feudal duties, especially the fees on property transactions known as "compositions", was written in Latin.

For example, as Regent, Mary of Guise paid for her stable, costume, and wardrobe separately and these expenses do not occur in her treasurer's accounts.

These volumes were kept for many years by the family of the Earl of Leven and Melville, and were deposited in the National Archives of Scotland in 1944.

Entry in a duplicate treasurer's account for clothes made for four pages and an African servant of Anne of Denmark , known as the "Moir" in October 1590, National Records of Scotland . [ 11 ]