History of Scotland
As the act's popularity grew, Bankes took it beyond London. Historian Patrick Henderson wrote in his "History of Scotland" (1596): "There came an Englishman to Edinburgh, with a chestain-coloured naig, which he called Marroco. […] He made him to do many rare and uncouth tricks, such as never horse was observed to do the like before in this land." A journal entry from Shrewsbury in 1591 relates: