[9] In 1554, Edinburgh painters led by Walter Binning assaulted an outsider, David Workman, who had been painting a ceiling.
[10] Walter Binning painted scenery and costume for a triumph or show at the Tron on Edinburgh's Royal Mile to celebrate the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots and Francis II of France, on 3 July April 1558.
There were artificial "summer trees" with fruit made from tennis balls covered with gold foil or leaf.
[14] In February 1562 the royal treasurer paid him £20 Scots, possibly for painting work in connection with the masques and mummery at the wedding of Lord James Stewart and Agnes Keith.
[20] In October 1567 he was asked to return building materials salvaged from the Friary to the site for the construction of a new hospital at Trinity College Kirk.
[23] Robert Binning glazed David's Tower and the chapel in Edinburgh castle in January 1540, and also painted and gilded carved heraldry at Holyrood Palace.
[25] James Hunter eventually became the king's glazier in October 1584, though Mary, Queen of Scots appointed Steven Loch first, in May 1562.