Thank you. I thought it would probably take about a day for a messenger to ride from Falkland to Linlithgow, but was not 100% sure. As for the other question, I was asking because I had thought about setting the coronation of Henry (James V's son from his first marriage by Madeline of Valois; in my alternate history series Mary does not become Queen at six days old, she is only a Princess of Scotland as sister of the new King) on Christmas Day 1542, which was eleven days after James' death, but wasn't sure if that would be giving enough time for the travel to Stirling.