[2] The outline of the ship, the Great Michael, commissioned by James IV, was commemorated by a plantation of hawthorn hedges at Tullibardine.

[3] Mary, Queen of Scots, visited William Murray of Tullibardine at the castle on 16 November 1562,[4] and following the baptism of Prince James, on 31 December 1566 accompanied, it was said, by the Earl of Bothwell.

[5] The indictment or "Book of Articles" written by her enemies in 1568 says, in the Scots language, "at Tullibardin (and at Drymen, Drummond Castle) sche abaid the spece of aucht dayis using that fylthines almoist without cloik or respect of schame or honestie".

[6] Letters of Annabell Murray, Countess of Mar and William Stewart of Grandtully suggest a meeting at Tullibardine Castle on 28 July 1570 was an attempt at reconciliation during the Marian Civil War.

King James, possibly with Anne of Denmark, attended the wedding of Lilias Murray and John Grant of Freuchie on 21 June 1591 at Tullibardine.