locket with a "just dyackle", a compass dial. She could buy a pearl for it cheaper than £3 herself. She also a "laich", low bed. She had received a description of a skirt made of "rammage" patterned fabric for the President's wife Margaret Balfour and wanted a cloak made of the same. Some of Katherine's letters survive. She wrote to the steward at Barnbarroch, George Vaus, to instruct him to shear the sheep when the weather was right, to compel the farm servants to work at the mill by threatening to sell their goods, and see that Jonet MacDowall was spinning wool, some of the wool should be used for a new table cloth for her extending dining table. In September 1587 Vaus gave her and her factor William Dunbar rights to manage his rents and crops for three years for the 10,000 Scots that he owed her. A son Richard Waus was granted the vicarage of Leswalt and Inch in Wigton in March 1580. This benefice was previously held by the master of the royal works William MacDowall. Published correspondence Letters and papers belonging to Sir Patrick were published in two volumes by Robert Vans Agnew in 1887. Correspondence of Sir Patrick Waus of Barnbarroch, knight, volume 1 Correspondence of Sir Patrick Waus of Barnbarroch, knight, volume 2 Family Patrick had the following children with Elizabeth Kennedy: Isobell Vans Margaret Vans Janet Vans Grissell Vans He had the following children with Katherine Kennedy: Patrick Vans (d. 1649) Robert Vans Alexander Vans Eupheme Vans Elizabeth Vans Catherine Vans Jean Vans Florence Vans Mary Vans John Vans of Barnbarroch References Attribution 1529 births 1597 deaths 16th-century Scottish people 16th-century Scottish judges Senators of the College of Justice Scottish knights Ambassadors of Scotland to Denmark Members of the Privy Council of Scotland Court of James VI and I