Andrew stayed in Edinburgh, where he had his own workshop (a buith), and the terms of his pension or retainer of 10 marks in 1544 mention his sons. He joined the Edinburgh incorporation of masons, wrights, glaziers, and painters. From September 1555 he was one of four master craftsmen who judged the assay pieces of tables or dressers made by carpenters who wanted to become free masters of the craft. He was also resident in the Canongate, at that a time a separate jurisdiction to Edinburgh, where he was an elder of the kirk in August 1567 and served on the Canongate burgh council in 1568. He was paid his royal pension of £16 in January 1579 and a further £29 in April and this is last record of him. Another royal gunner, Robert Robertson, made furniture for James VI, including a table in September 1579. Several descendants continued as carpenters (called wrights). Francis, who took his place as a gunner at Edinburgh Castle in August 1579, was probably the eldest son. Francis Mansioun was the official of the trade organisation in Edinburgh as 'Deacon of the Wrights' in 1595, and as such he was asked to comment on the repair of St Giles Cathedral. Francis made an oak pulpit for the Kirk of Falkland in August 1602. Joshua and Isaac Mansioun, probably siblings, were also Deacons of the Wrights in Edinburgh, and John Mansioun married to Barbara Kello was also a wright in Edinburgh in 1603. James Rokno, the son of Mansioun's Flemish colleague Tibault Rokno, also stayed in Edinburgh and became a gunner of the royal artillery. James Rokno was made master wright and gunner as his "guid-father" James Hectour had been in 1584, and Rokno's old position was given to David Selkirk. In 1589 he was the gunner on the James'', the ship that took James VI to Norway to meet his bride Anne of Denmark. References Michael Pearce, 'A French Furniture Maker and the 'Courtly Style' in Sixteenth-Century Scotland', Regional Furniture, XXXII (2018) External links Historic Scotland TV advert from 2011 featuring "Monsieur Andre Manson" Historic Environment Scotland | Stirling Castle: A Glimpse of Magnificence Craftsmen in the royal accounts: Research on James V's patronage of artist-makers Court of James V of Scotland Court of Mary, Queen of Scots 1579 deaths British woodcarvers Scottish soldiers French artists French expatriates in Scotland Scottish military engineers Year of