- Stewart, Earl of
Arran (1586)
William Little (1587) Sir John
Arnot of
Birswick (1591)
William Little (1592)
Nicol Uddert (1593)
Alexander Home of North...
- John
Arnot of
Birswick (Orkney) (1530–1616) was a 16th-century
Scottish merchant and
landowner who
served as Lord
Provost of
Edinburgh from 1587 to 1591...
-
Stirling (London, 1878), p. 648 no. 25. "Act in
favour of Sir John
Arnott [of
Birswick],
Archibald Johnstone,
Andrew Logan of
Coitfield and
William Fairlie"....
-
known as the
Honours of Scotland,
which he
received from John
Arnot of
Birswick,
Provost of Edinburgh. The
condition of the
crown and
sword were recorded...
- as Provost. He was
replaced in turn from 1587 to 1591 by John
Arnot of
Birswick,
before serving a
second term as
Provost 1591 to 1592,
thereafter being...
- was
delivered to Anne of Denmark, and £4170 was paid to John
Arnot of
Birswick, a
creditor of
James VI.
James Dalziel, an
Edinburgh merchant, was given...
- On 28
October 1588
Fairlie and the
Provost of Edinburgh, John
Arnot of
Birswick issued a p**** for 46
Spanish and
Italian sailors who had been shipwrecked...
-
about this
apparent appropriation of
private property, but John
Arnot of
Birswick produced Hamilton's
letter agreeing to
satisfy the
royal commission in...
