When the teenage James V came to Linlithgow in 1528, Thomas Hamilton supplied him with sugar candy.Excerpta e libris domicilii Jacobi Quinti regis Scotorum (Bannatyne Club: Edinburgh, 1836), p. 169. James V added the outer gateway and the elaborate courtyard fountain.John G. Dunbar, Scottish Royal Palaces (Tuckwell/Historic Scotland/RCAHMS: East Linton, 1999), pp. 6–21. The stonework of the south façade was renewed and unified for James V in the 1530s by the keeper, James Hamilton of Finnart.Henry Paton, Accounts of the Masters of Work: 1529–1615, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1957), pp. 115–131. Timber imported from Denmark-Norway, including "Estland boards" and joists, was bought at the harbours of Dundee, South Queensferry, Montrose, and Leith, and shipped to Blackness Castle to be carted to the Palace. Three oak trees were cut down in Callender Wood to provide tables for dressing food in the kitchens, and seven oak trees from the Torwood. The improvements included altering the chapel ceiling and trees were brought from Callender to make scaffolding for this. Six hogshead barrels were bought to hold the scaffold in place.Henry Paton, Accounts of the Masters of Work, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1957), pp. 123–6.
