Editing Linlithgow Palace (section)

==James V==
When the teenage [[James V]] came to Linlithgow in 1528, Thomas Hamilton supplied him with sugar candy.<ref>''Excerpta e libris domicilii Jacobi Quinti regis Scotorum'' (Bannatyne Club: Edinburgh, 1836), p. 169.</ref> James V added the outer gateway and the elaborate courtyard fountain.<ref>John G. Dunbar, ''Scottish Royal Palaces'' (Tuckwell/Historic Scotland/RCAHMS: East Linton, 1999), pp. 6–21.</ref> The stonework of the south façade was renewed and unified for James V in the 1530s by the keeper, [[James Hamilton of Finnart]].<ref>Henry Paton, ''Accounts of the Masters of Work: 1529–1615'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1957), pp. 115–131.</ref> Timber imported from [[Denmark-Norway]], including "Estland boards" and joists, was bought at the harbours of [[Dundee]], [[South Queensferry]], [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]], and [[Leith]], and shipped to [[Blackness Castle]] to be carted to the palace. Three oak trees were cut down in Callender Wood to provide tables for dressing food in the kitchens, and seven oak trees from the Torwood. The improvements included altering the chapel ceiling and trees were brought from Callender to make scaffolding for this. Six hogshead barrels were bought to hold the scaffold in place.<ref>Henry Paton, ''Accounts of the Masters of Work'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1957), pp. 123–6.</ref>

The older statues of the Pope, the Knight, and Labouring Man on the east side of the courtyard, with the inscriptions on ribbons held by angels were painted. New iron window grills, called [[yett]]s, were made by blacksmiths in Linlithgow, and these, with weather vanes, were painted with [[Lead(II,IV) oxide|red lead]] and [[vermilion]]. A metal worker in Glasgow called George Clame made shutter catches for the windows and door locks in iron plated with tin. The chapel ceiling was painted with fine [[azurite]]. [[Thomas Peebles (glazier)|Thomas Peebles]] put [[stained glass]] in the chapel windows and the windows of the "Lyon Chamber", meaning the courtyard windows of the Great Hall.<ref>Henry Paton, ''Accounts of the Masters of Work'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1957), pp. 126–7, 128.</ref>

A chaplain, Thomas Johnston, kept the palace watertight and had the wallwalks and gutters cleaned. Peter Johnstoun was the palace carpenter. Robert Murray looked after the lead roofs and the plumbing of the fountain.<ref>James Balfour Paul, ''Accounts of the Treasurer'', vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), pp. 335, 339: ''Exchequer Rolls'', 17 (Edinburgh, 1897), 284.</ref> There was a tennis court in the garden and an eel-trap in the Loch.<ref>[[David Hay Fleming]] & James Beveridge, ''Register of the Privy Seal, 1542–1548'', vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 67 no. 460.</ref> The lodgings built for the Queen in the 1530s may have been in the old north wing on the first floor. Only one side of a doorway from this period remains, which may have led to a grand staircase for the Queen.<ref>[[Charles McKean]], 'Gender Differentiation in Scottish Royal Palaces', Monique Chatenet & Krista De Jonge, ''Le prince, la princesse et leurs logis'' (Paris, 2014), p. 94.</ref>

When [[Mary of Guise]] arrived in Scotland, James Hamilton of Finnart was given 400 [[Écu|French gold crowns]] to repair the palace.<ref>James Balfour Paul, ''Accounts of the Treasurer'', vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 60.</ref> Mary of Guise stayed in March 1539, and new clothes were made for her entertainers, the fool Serat and the dwarf Jane.<ref>James Balfour Paul, ''Accounts of the Treasurer'', vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 151.</ref> In August 1539, Finnart was paid for [[food and the Scottish royal household|rebuilding the king's kitchen]], at the north end of the great hall, with a fireplace, an oven, and a room for silver vessels, and another for keeping coal.<ref>James Balfour Paul, ''Accounts of the Treasurer'', vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 195.</ref> 

During a visit in December 1539, Mary of Guise was provided with gold, silver, and black thread for embroidery, and her ladies' embroidery equipment was brought from [[Falkland Palace]]. Tapestry was brought from Edinburgh to decorate the palace. The goldsmiths Thomas Rynde and [[John Mosman (goldsmith)|John Mosman]] provided chains, tablets or lockets, rings, precious stones, necklaces, and jewelled coifs for ladies called "shaffrons" for the King to give as gifts to his courtiers on New Year's Day. On the feast of the Epiphany in January the court watched an "interlude" that was an early version of [[David Lyndsay]]'s play, ''[[A Satire of the Three Estates]]'', in the Great Hall. Mary of Guise returned to Edinburgh on 3 February and was crowned soon afterwards.<ref>''Accounts of the Treasurer'', vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), pp. 264–5, 266–7, 287: ''State Papers of Henry VIII'', vol. 5 part 4 cont. (London, 1836), pp. 170–1.</ref>