 A merchant or captain William Wod received a reward from the king for bringing African people to the court in 1504 accompanied by a Portuguese man.James and Margaret Tudor were at Dunfermline Palace and during a suspected outbreak of plague, the women, called "More lasses", were sent to Edinburgh on 26 November 1504.The accounts record that a woman "tursit" the "More lasses" from Dunfermline, a word that usually means the packing and transport of household goods with cord but can also mean the transport of people.