Hans Anderson in Flanders. Drummond directed the workmen who unloaded the double-cannon and two great culverin-moyanes at Leith and laid them on the Shore. After an extra difficulty when the draught horses refused at the gate of Edinburgh castle, the guns were mounted using a crane. John Drummond was also in charge of the manufacture of gunpowder at Edinburgh. At the start of the war with England called the Rough Wooing, John Drummond was at the siege of Glasgow Castle in April 1544, and was with the gunners who defended Edinburgh Castle from Lord Hertford's army in May 1544. In September 1545, Drummond was summoned from his home to help carry the artillery towards the English border. In September 1547 he was working at Dunbar Castle, and led the artillery train from Edinburgh Castle to the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh. John was given livery clothes at Christmas, the last time in 1550, and thereafter there is no further record. Family and homes According to the family history of 1681, his mother was a daughter of the Laird of Craigie-Ross. John married a daughter of the Laird of Logie-Bisset, and they had a daughter who married Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig. John's brother, David Drummond, succeeded him at Milnab. A royal charter of 7 May 1527 sets out that his daughter Jonet and her heirs would inherit Milnab. A charter of 19 July 1536 gave lands near Haddington with Milnab to him and his wife, Christiane Brogy, without mentioning Jonet. A subsequent charter of 20 April 1541, apportions the lands to all three. The latest charter also seems to be the one mentioning 'bellicarum ejaculator' quoted but wrongly dated by the family historian . It would seem that from this sequence that Christiane Brogy was John's second wife, but there is no record of Jonet's marriage. The lands near Haddington at Ballencreiff neighboured those granted to other royal servants, Robert Borthwick, gun founder to James IV, and Robert Gibb of Carriber, a master of the stable of James V. References Thomas, Andrea, Princelie Majestie, the Court of James V (John Donald: Edinburgh, 2005) Paton, Henry, Accounts of the Masters of Work for Palaces and Castle, vol. 1 (HMSO: Edinburgh, 1957). External links Mylne, RS., 'Master Wrights of Scotland', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries Scotland, (1890), 288-297 Year of birth missing Year of death missing 16th-century Scottish people Court of James