Regent Moray and the treasurer Robert Richardson raised loans with jewels as security and sold some pieces with precious stones to Edinburgh merchants.HMC 6th Report: Earl of Moray (London, 1877), p. 643.Julian Goodare, 'The Debts of James VI of Scotland', Economic History Review, 62:4 (November 2009), pp. 934-5. Robert Melville arranged with Valentine Browne, treasurer of Berwick, for loans secured on the jewels.William Fraser, The Melvilles, Earls of Melville and the Leslies, Earls of Leven, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1890), p. 92
