A typical day in the life of a Scottish nobleman appears in an account of the Earl of Huntly’s death in May 1576, where after waving off his sister and her husband, the Earl of Sutherland, he went off hunting, killed three hares and a fox and then came home to dinner. So far so good, but he then had a furious
row when he decided to have a kick-about and no-one could find a football.