leaves and fruit,from branche to branche in kings.The palm tree was admired and described by John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar who visited London in 1613. This seems to have been a salt, described in 1620 with other items of the queen's tableware scheduled for sale as; " a salt of gold in pieces, having a clock within crystal, the foot of same being gold triangle wise, the cover thereof being a castle, and out of the same castle a green tree, the flowers being diamonds and rubies in roses, the same clock salt and crystal garnished with gold, diamonds, and rubies, wanting a dial in the same clock". The figurative image of Anne of Denmark as a fruitful vine, an olive tree with four branches, was used in a speech in parliament made after the Gunpowder Plot by Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley as Lord Chancellor. Legacy His nephew William Drummond of Hawthornden bequeathed a manuscript collection of seventy-two sonnets, entitled The Tarantula of Love, and a translation (1587) from the Italian of the Triumphs of Petrarke to the library of the University of Edinburgh. Two other volumes of his manuscript notes, poems and other papers. are preserved among the Drummond of Hawthornden manuscripts held by the National Library of Scotland. Fowler's poetry was featured in the 1803 publication by John Leyden of Scottish Descriptive Poems. Family William Fowler's children included; A daughter who married James Ruch. A daughter who married Patrick Stirling. Ludovick Fowler, burgess of Haddington and owner of the Deanery at Restalrig. He married Jean Cathcart in 1622. Anna Fowler. After the death of her husband, a Mr Delille, she lived in Cambridge in 1665 in poverty and sent begging letters to William Sancroft, Dean of St Paul's. Editions A True Reportarie of the Most Triumphant, and Royal Accomplishment of the Baptisme of the Most Excellent, Right High, and Mightie Prince, Frederik Henry, By the Grace of God, Prince of Scotland. Solemnized the 30 Day of August 1594, Robert Waldegrave, Edinburgh (1594) Henry Meikle, ed., The Works of William Fowler, 3 vols, vol. I 1914, vol. II 1936, vol. III 1940, Scottish Text Society, Edinburgh References William Fowler, The Literary Encyclopedia Allison L. Steenson, The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612'' (Routledge, 2020). 1560s births 1612 deaths 16th-century Scottish writers 16th-century male writers 17th-century Scottish writers 16th-century Scottish poets 17th-century Scottish poets