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and craftsmen and gunners including David Rowan, the metal-workers Adam
Hamilton and John Biccarton, and the glazier Steven Loch who provided a window for Anstruther's chamber. Workmen were equipped with spades, picks and mattocks, and chisels to unspike the cannon left on the island. His lieutenant
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Balfour. Two senior soldiers were on double pay, and three boatmen were retained to serve the island, Captain Lumsden, and Thomas and Alexander Northgate. There was a prisoner on Inchkeith, George Laidlaw.
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Regency between 1554 and 1560.
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but failed to find buyers. One of the Leith sea captains who made trips to Leith for Robert
Anstruther was John Downie. In 1580 Downie brought plague to Edinburgh from Denmark in his ship the
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and received wages for soldiers there in June 1568 including
Bartraham Companye, William Lowriestoun, Julian Rowan, David Scraling, George Lafont, John Carruthers, and Archie Blackwood.
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109:In April 1562, Anstruther was made captain of
58:In July 1561 Mary, Queen of Scots, who was at
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232:, 5:1 (Edinburgh, 1957), pp. 195-6 no. 825-6.
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243:Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1547-1563
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