William Dundas of Fingask

[3][4] John Maitland urged Anna to receive an honorable company of ladies and gentlemen in her household in July 1590.

[7] His kinsman John Colville shadowed the "young baron of Fingask" from Newcastle to Durham and reported his movements to the poet Henry Lok.

Colville discovered the contents of letters carried by Dundas and sent his comments to Lok for Sir Robert Cecil.

[10] A letter from James Douglas of Spott in London to William Dundas of Fingask, from November 1594, praises his skill in the Latin language, and includes news of the injury of the Earl of Erroll at the Battle of Glenlivet.

[12] There has been some confusion over the date of the death of William Dundas and the identity of the "baron of Fingask" in the letters of John Colville.

In the 1590s Scottish houses were decorated with painted emblems. Ceiling from the house of the diplomat Robert Melville , National Museum of Scotland