at Holyroodhouse. One version of the Memoir of David Moysie mentions that the King and Queen were "in Alloway the earle of Mars house at the bankett at Yuill and at Nursemes". Newersmes was a Scots Language word for New Year's Day.

Festivities, customarily held at a bridegroom's family home known as the infare, were mentioned by one of the invited guests, the courtier John Elphinstone.