For those of you who like to have your own peek at the source material here is a glossary of works that was consulted during the course of this research. 

Record Sources and collections of correspondence:

Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland 1473 - 1566. Ed Thomas Dickson and Sir James Balfour

Acts of Parliament of Scotland vol 2 (1424 - 1567). Ed T Thomson and C Innes. Edinburgh (1814-75)

Criminal Trials in Scotland from 1488 to 1624. Ed Robert Pitcairn. Edinburgh 1833. Bannantyne and Maitland Club

Exchequer Rolls of Scotland 1264 - 1600. Ed Stuart et al. Edinburgh 1878 - 1908.

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of King Henry VIII. Vaduz. 1965

Letters of King Henry VIII, a selection with a few other documents. Ed M St Clare Byrne. Cassell.1968.

Letters of King Henry VIII 1526-29: extracts from the Calender of State Papers of Henry VIII. Norwich. Stationary Office. 2001.

Letters of James V 1513-1542. Ed R.K. Hanay and D. Hay. Edinburgh. 1954.

Papiers d'etat... relatifs a l'histoire de L'Ecosse au XVI siecle. Ed A Teulet. Bannantyne Club. 1852 - 1860.

Registrum Magni Sigilii Regum Scotorum. Ed JM Thomson et al. Edinburgh. 1882 -1914

Registrum Secreti Sigilii Regum Scotorum Vol iii 1513-1542. Ed JB Paul and JM Thomson

State Papers of Henry VIII. London 1830 - 1852

Primary Sources

A History of Greater Britain as well as England and Scotland. John Major. Edinburgh. T&A Constable. 1892

The Anglica Historia 1485 - 1537. Polydore Vergil. Ed & trans D Hay. London. Royal Historical Society. 1950

A Diurnal of Remarkable Occurences that have passed within the country of Scotland ...Edinburgh. Bannantyne and Maitland Club. 1833.

The Expedicion into Scotland of Edward, Duke of Somerset in 1548. W. Patten. Edinburgh in Tudor Tracts

The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland. Vol 2. J Leslie Ed Thomas Thomson. Bannatyne Club. 1830.

The History of Scotland. G Buchanan. Trans Unknown. 1821

The History of Scotland. G Buchanan. Trans J.Aikman. Glasgow. Edinburgh. 1827-29

'The Rhoit or Quhell of Tyme'. A Abell NLS MS 1746

History of Scotland from the year 1423 until the year 1542. W Drummond of Hawthorden. London. 1681.

Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland. A Cardonnel. London. Edwards of Pall Mall. 1788.

Main Secondary References

Anglo Scot Wars. G Phillips. Boydell press. 1999.

Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages. M Prestwich. Yale University Press. 1996.

The Art of Warfare in the Sixteenth Century. C Oman. Greenhill Books. 1937.

Crown Magnate Relations in the Personal Rule of James V 1528-1542. J Cameron. Tuckwell Press. 1988.

The Douglas Book. W Fraser. Edinburgh. 1885.

Episodes in West Lothian History. AM Bisset. Dundee. 1928.

Flodden 1513. N Barr. Tempus Publications. 2001

Flodden - a Scottish Tragedy. P Reese. Birlinn. 2003

History of Scotland from the Accession of the House of Alexander III to the Union. Vol IV. P Tytler. Edinburgh. 1864.

History of Scotland from the Accession of the House of Stewart to that of Mary. J Pinkerton. Edinburgh. 1814.

History of the Town and Parish of Linlithgow. G Waldie. 1879

James V - King of Scots. C Bingham. Collins. 1971.

Margaret Tudor - Queen of Scots. P Buchanan. Edinburgh Scottish Academic Press. 1985.

The Lennox. W Fraser. Edinburgh 1874

My Wound is Deep. R Campbell Paterson. John Donald Publishers. 1997.

On a Tudor Parade Ground. JR hale. London. Society of Renaissance Studies. 1978.

Place Names of West Lothian. A Macdonald. Edinburgh. 1941

The Renaissance at War. T Arnold. Cassell & Co. 2001.

Scotland and War. D Macdougall. Edinburgh. John Donald. 1991.

Scottish Weapons and Fortifications. DH Caldwell. Edinburgh. John Donald. 1981

Scotland James V to James VII. G Donaldson. Edinburgh History of Scotland Vol iii. 1965.

Stewart Style - Essays on the Court of James V. J Williams. East Linton. 1996.

Two Men in a Trench: Battlefield Archaeology - the Key to Unlocking the Past. N Oliver & T Pollard. Michael Joseph. 2002.

The triumphant Reign of King Henry VIII. E Hall Ed C Whitby and TC Jack. London. 1804. 

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