The Treasurer was a senior post in the pre-Union government of Scotland, the Privy Council of Scotland.
Entry in a duplicate treasurer's account for clothes made for four pages and an African servant of Anne of Denmark, known as the "Moir" in October 1590, National Records of Scotland.
English subsidy of James VI
Queen Elizabeth I of England paid a subsidy to King James VI of Scotland from 1586 to 1602. This enabled her to influence James by delaying or deferring payments to his diplomats in London. Records survive of the yearly amounts, and details of the expenditure in some years. A large proportion of the money was spent on the royal wardrobe of James and Anne of Denmark. Some royal expenses were met by Anne of Denmark's dowry, which was known as the "tocher". The regular incomes of the Scottish crown were feudal rents, customs, and "compositions" charged on grants of land. Accounts for royal incomes and payments survive as the exchequer rolls and lord treasurer's accounts and have been published as historical sources.
John Maitland of Thirlestane and his wife Jean Fleming administered the English subsidy money in 1588-90
James VI took a silver service to Norway and gave some of it to Steen Brahe
In 1594 James VI requested a shipment of English lead to repair the roof of Linlithgow Palace
Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow gave her son-in-law King James 10,000 dalers