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  • Adamson, Patrick, Archbishop of St Andrews1
  • Aston, Roger, Knight, courtier in Scotland and England; Master of the Great Wardrobe, d 16121
  • Beale, Robert, administrator and diplomat, 1541-1601, http://isni.org/isni/000000...1
  • Bellenden, Lewis, lawyer1
  • Bowes, Robert, Treasurer of Berwick, English ambassador to Scotland, d 1597, http://viaf.org/viaf/540661341
  • Campbell, Colin, 6th Earl of Argyll1
  • Carey, Henry, 1st Baron Hunsdon, courtier and administrator, 1526-1596, http://isni.org/isni/000000...1
  • Castelnau, Michel de, Sieur de Mauvissière, French envoy to England1
  • Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley, royal minister, Lord Treasurer 1572, 1520-1598, http://isni.org/isni/000000...1
  • Cobham, Henry, Ambassador to Spain and to the Duke of Alva1
  • Cotton, John, 3rd Baronet, 1621-17021
  • Cotton, Robert Bruce, first baronet, antiquary and politician, 22 Jan 1571-6 May 1631, http://isni.org/isni/000000...1
  • Cotton, Thomas, 2nd Baronet, 1594-16621
  • Davison, William, diplomat and administrator, d 16081
  • Douglas, Archibald, 8th Earl of Angus, magnate, c 1555-15881
  • Dudley, Robert, 1st Earl of Leicester, courtier and statesman, ?1532-15881
  • Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, 1533-1603, http://isni.org/isni/000000...1
  • Erskine, John, 2nd Earl of Mar1
  • Forster, John, Warden of the Middle Marches1
  • Gray, Patrick, 5th Lord Gray, landowner, 1538-16081
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