Editing Mary of Guise (section)

==Household==
Amongst records of her expenses and household there is a list of her ladies-in-waiting. The names (modernised) of the "dames" or married women are; Lady Arran, Lady Cassillis (senior), Lady Erskine, Lady Elphinston, Lady Livingston and Coullombe (senior). The unmarried "demoiselles" were Margaret Hume, Margery Livingston, Jean Elphinston, Jean Murray, [[Annabell Murray, Countess of Mar|Annabell Murray]], Margaret Steward, Anne Scot, Margery Kirkcaldy, Coullombe, Barbara Sandilands, Barbara Kennedy, Cassillis, Crespy, Crespanville, with Elizabeth Murray the wife of [[Alexander Durham]], the daughter of Lady Livingston, and two female fools.<ref>[[Marguerite Wood]], ''Balcarres Papers'', vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1925), p. 314.</ref>

Her household included a female fool or jester, called Serat, who wore a red-and-yellow gown with a green skirt. Jane, or Jean, a dwarf, wore a light-purple velvet.<ref>James Balfour Paul, ''Accounts of the Treasurer'', vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. xlv.</ref> The [[Treasurer of Scotland|treasurer's accounts]] do not include detail of her wardrobe expenses during her Regency (1554–1560), but in November 1557 she directed the burgh council of Edinburgh to exempt Archibald Dewar from taxes. He seems to have been her tailor.<ref>[[Marguerite Wood]], "Domestic Affairs of the Burgh, 1554-1589", ''Book of the Old Edinburgh Club'', 15 (Edinburgh, 1927), p. 28.</ref>