Wild Knight and the Black Lady

[7] Painters were supplied with glue, chalk, pots called "piggis", silver leaf, varnish, verdigris, and linseed oil for painting the props and heraldic decorations.

Alexander Chalmer made and painted heraldic "beast heads" which decorated the field below Edinburgh Castle named for the event as the Chateau des Pucelles.

A contemporary racist poem by William Dunbar, Of Ane Blak-Moir, describes a woman of African origin, lately arrived in Scotland on a ship, who presided at a tournament.

[11] The Black Lady was carried in a triumphal chair from Edinburgh Castle to the tournament ground, escorted by Alexander Elphinstone (who subsequently married Elizabeth Berlay) and others.

[12] "Wild men" at the jousting course or barriers were dressed in goat skin costumes made by James Aikman and wore hart horns from Tullibardine.

[13] On the first day of the events, challengers were to assemble at the "Tree of Esperance" at the tournament ground beneath Edinburgh castle, where the Black Lady kept the week's white shield, accompanied by the wild men.

The tree of Esperance or Hope was decorated with artificial flowers, pears, wooden apples, and painted heraldic shields, moulded in leather by Simon Glasford, a buckler-maker.