and who had called Forman "yon evyll myndit Byschep of Morray". MacDougall also explains that Andrew Forman was one of the main participants in the peace treaty of 1502, its renewal in 1509 and his opposition to the renewal of the alliance with France in 1508; he goes on to say that it would have been inconceivable that the king could be manoeuvered into a position that was against his own wishes. The early chroniclers (Buchanan and Pitscottie) did nothing to revive Forman's tarnished reputation yet when King James took the advice of his General Council, only two counsellors opposed the French alliance—Bishop Elphinstone of Aberdeen and Archibald Douglas, the Earl of Angus. According to the chronicle writer Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Forman was the deviser of court theatre and spectacle for James IV and at the tournament of the Wild Knight and the Black Lady contrived a cloud that descended from the ceiling of the hall and swept the Lady away. Notes References Bibliography [Archer, Andrew Forman, Dict. Nat. Biog.] Bain, Joseph, ed., Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, Vol. IV, Edinburgh, 1888 [Bain, Cal. Docs. Scot.] Bonnar, Elizabeth, Stewart, John, second duke of Albany (–1536), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006 (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26488, Retrieved 26 January 2008) [Bonnar, Albany, ODNB] Brewer, J.S., Ed., Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, Vol. I, London, 1862 [Brewer, Letters and Papers of Henry VIII] Chalmers, T. G., James IV (1473–1513), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, October 2007 (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14590, Retrieved 10 January 2008). [Chalmers, James IV, ODNB] Dowden, J., The Bishops of Scotland ... prior to the Reformation, ed. J. M. Thomson, Edinburgh, 1912. [Dowden, Bishops of Scotland] Fawcett, Richard and Oram, Richard, Dryburgh Abbey, Stroud, 2005. [Fawcett & Oram, Dryburgh Abbey] Fleming, David Hay, The Reformation in Scotland, London, 1910 [Fleming, Reformation in Scotland] Herkless, John & Hannay, Robert Kerr, The Archbishops of St Andrews, Vol II, Edinburgh, 1909. [Herkless & Hannay, Archbishops of St Andrews] MacDougall, Norman, James IV, Edinburgh, 2006. () [MacDougall, James IV] Mackay, A. J. G., James V (1512–1542), king of Scotland, Dictionary of National Biography, 1891 at Archive at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14591, Retrieved 28 January 2008) [Mackay, James V, archive ODNB] McGladdery C.A., Forman, Andrew (–1521), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press,