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On the first day of the events, challengers were to assemble at the "Tree of
Esperance" at the tournament ground beneath Edinburgh castle, where the Black Lady kept the week's white shield, accompanied by the wild men. The tree of Esperance or Hope was decorated with artificial flowers, pears, wooden
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The invitation outlining the articles of the tournament to be sent to France was illuminated with gold leaf in
February 1507. The priest John Ramsay wrote out the words and Thomas Galbraith of the Chapel Royal may have been the illuminator. The document itself does not survive, but some of the text
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Painters were supplied with glue, chalk, pots called "piggis", silver leaf, varnish, verdigris, and linseed oil for painting the props and heraldic decorations. Thomas
Galbraith and Piers the Painter gilded highlights and heraldry on banners, tents, and
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include updates to equipment and costume. In 1508 the Black Lady's costume was renewed with a green woollen skirt, and new black leather sleeves and gloves. Her two maidens wore Bruges satin.
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punctuated the events. Combats and jousts were scored by judges and the ladies, women of
Margaret Tudor's household and the court. The competition and combats were said to "counterfeit the
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Cochran, the cutler William Rae, and French armourers and smiths working for the Scottish court. John Mayne and others made spears or lances.
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One 1508 payment seems to be a reference to the leatherworkers who made harnesses for the theatrical disappearance of Martin and the Black Lady at the
Holyrood banquet:
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Item, the last day of Maij, to the xiiij (14) men that bure the blak lady fra the
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