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with great mansion in High Street, Edinburgh
    *Dean Walter Swift, his brother; Holyrood chaplain; occupant of former Royal Mint
    *Robert Grey, butcher, of Canongate and High Street booths
    *Isabel (Isa) Williamson, Tolbooth trader; supplier to King James
    Lang Bessie, brewster-wife, High Street tavern
    *Hector Meldrum, royal macer, of Canongate and High Street booths
    *Henry Cant, merchant with booth in Edinburgh; sailed with Walter
    Bertram, q.v., and kin to his wife
    *John Napier of Merchiston, variously merchant, Provost of Edinburgh, Master of the Royal Household; married to *Margaret Preston; claimant to earldom of Lennox through second marriage to *Elizabeth Menteith, elder sister of Agnes, wife of Sir John Haldane, q.v.
    *Janet Napier, of the same family, married to *John Wilson, burgess of Edinburgh
    *John (Johnnie) Ramsay, heir and probable son of Janet Napier; married to *Isobel Cant
    *Sir Gilbert Johnstone of Elphinstone, King’s armiger and future Deputy Constable and sheriff of Edinburgh
    *Adam, his son, and *Adam, his brother
    *James Russell, associate of Johnstone
    *John Heriot of Longniddry, another associate
    *James Gullane of Newbattle, another associate
    MUSICIANS AND POETS :
    *William Roger (Whistle Willie), English musician long resident at Scottish Court
    *Blind Harry, travelling ballad-maker
    *John Reid (Stobo), churchman, royal clerk and poet
    *Sir Richard Holland, clerk, poet and English pensioner
    *Robert Henryson, law graduate and notary; schoolmaster at Dunfermline
    *Sir John Ross of Hawkhead, q.v., poet
    *James Auchinleck, poet, husband of Sir John’s daughter Gelis, q.v.
    England:
    *King Edward IV, House of York
    *Cicely Nevill, Duchess of York, his mother
    *Margaret, Dowager Duchess of Burgundy, his sister, q.v.
    *Elizabeth Woodville, his Queen
    *Cecilia, their second daughter, contracted in childhood to son of King James III of Scotland
    *George, Duke of Clarence, King Edward’s brother
    *Richard (Dickon), Duke of Gloucester, sheriff of Cumberland, Warden of the West March, Admiral of England, George’s younger brother
    *Anne Nevill, Richard’s wife
    *Dr Alexander Leigh, canon of Windsor, Almoner to King Edward
    *Humphrey, Lord Dacre of Gilsland
    *Henry (Harry) Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, sheriff of Northumberland, Constable of Bamburgh Castle and Warden of East and Middle Marches
    *Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, brother of Queen Elizabeth
    *Sir Edward Woodville, brother of Queen Elizabeth
    *Thomas Grey, Earl of Huntingdon, Marquis of Dorset, son of Queen Elizabeth by her first marriage
    *Thomas, Lord Stanley, married to a sister of *Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick
    *John (Jack), Lord Howard, King’s lieutenant and captain of main fleet against Scotland
    *Sir Thomas Fulford, commander of west coast fleet
    Hector, mason
    France and Lorraine:
    *William Monypenny, Lord of Concressault, a Scot resident in France; envoy of French King
    Bernard de Moncourt, seigneur de Chouzy, by Blois
    Claude d’Échaut, his wife
    *Dr John Ireland, Scots scholar resident in France; envoy of the French King
    *René II, Duke of Lorraine in succession to his grandfater *Rene I, Duke of Anjou, Bar and Lorraine, Count of Provence
    Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Baltic States and Tyrol:
    *Emperor Frederick III of the House of Habsburg
    *Archduke Maximilian of Austria, his son
    *Sigismond, Duke of Austria and Styria and Count of the Tyrol
    *Eleanor Stewart, his wife, aunt to King James III of Scotland
    *Paúel Benecke, Danzig privateer
    Rome and Italian states:
    *Father Ludovico de Severi da Bologna, Patriarch of Antioch, papal and Imperial envoy
    *Cardinal Philibert Hugonet, brother of Chancellor Hugonet of Burgundy; master of Jan Adorne in Rome
    *Josaphat Barbaro, merchant; Venetian envoy to Uzum Hasan of Persia
    *Caterino Zeno, merchant; also Venetian envoy to Persia
    *Violante of Naxos, his wife
    Nerio, her unacknowledged son
    *Catherine Corner, her niece, widowed Venetian Queen of Cyprus
    *Charla, *Eugene