 Stewart was also mentioned by John Rolland in his prologue to the "Seven Sages".There were two students with this name at St Andrews University at the same time, giving rise to possible confusions of identity; in the "Buik of Chronicles", Stewart said he was a student there for 14 years.Although it has usually been assumed the poet and minor courtier Stewart wrote both the translation and the court poems, the critic Matthew McDiarmid attributed the translation to the other William Stewart, the bishop.