Joe,
Did you see my request about 10 postings back re John O Hazelgreen?

Just Googled 'Sir John Faw of Dunbar' and came up with some useful and interesting websites. One is a book by Walter Simson 'The Falls of Dunbar and their Descent from the Gipsies'. Unfortunatley I could only access the first page as you have to be a member of JStor or have library access to read it all, but it does mention useful things relevant to our discussion. Another site 'History of Gipsies in Scotland' gives the usual 6th Earl info, Hamilton, and links this with John Faw of Dunbar. This does claim there were bands of 'Saracens' in Scotland in the 1460s and because of their skin colour the populace would have identified them as Saracens at the time. Apparently they took on the guise of pilgrims all over Europe and this is how they manged to keep their status for so long without a great deal of molestation.