 As a patron of poets and authors James supported William Stewart and John Bellenden, the son of his nurse, who translated the Latin "History of Scotland" compiled in 1527 by Hector Boece into verse and prose.Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, the Lord Lyon, head of the Lyon Court and diplomat, was a prolific poet.He produced an interlude at Linlithgow Palace thought to be a version of his play "The Thrie Estaitis" in 1540.