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Edinburgh watch nightly for his enemies in 1585. He came in April to check and found Michael Gilbert and his wife in the street. Gilbert said he had sent a substitute or deputy. Arran became angry with this and chased him to his house, beating him with his baton. The town was closed
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who claimed he should be a master goldsmith despite not meeting the criteria. Morton was persuaded to support the "liberty" of the craft incorporation, and soon after Hart accepted that he should make a "masterpiece" in the workshop of Heriot or
William Cok. Hart was made a master of the goldsmith
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Gilbert of Kaimes (d. 1596), who married Christian Henderson, in 1596 their daughter Sibilla Gilbert married George Foulis of Woodhall Ravelston (1659-1633), a goldsmith. After the death of Sibilla Gilbert, in 1603 George Foulis married Janet Bannatyne (b. 1587), daughter of
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Gilbert to strike gold and silver medals with the motto "UN DIEU, UN FOY, UN ROY, UN LOY", and a monogram with his initials and those of his wife, Isobel Hamilton, daughter of
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sold him rights to the crops of the lands of
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Lucinda Dean, ‘Enter the alien: foreign consorts and their royal entries into
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He was made Deacon of the goldsmiths in June 1576 but refused the appointment. In 1579 he was one of the burgesses appointed to carry the "paill" or canopy at the
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was one of his apprentices. Gilbert and Foulis provided New Year's day gifts to the king in
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for safekeeping. In 1560 he bought silver from the church and the diamond from a ring on the finger of the arm relic of St Giles.
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