Alexander Lindsay, 1st Lord Spynie

He lent a thousand crowns to the king, who promised on his return "to make him a lord", and wrote him a note to effect at the castle of Kronborg.

On 18 November 1599 he had to promise the council to present Sir Walter Lindsay of Balgavie, a papal emissary, before the presbytery of Edinburgh, and was ordered to reside where they directed him until he satisfied them in reference to his religion.

After blowing up the principal gate with a petard and firing cannon or "field pieces" at the windows, the assailants entered the house with cocked pistols and drawn weapons.

[7] On the revival of the ancient bishopric of Moray in 1605, Spynie, at the request of the king, resigned the temporalities, but the patronage of the living was reserved to the family.

[8][10] The king used his influence to induce Dame Jean Lyon, daughter of John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis, and widow first of Sir Robert Douglas, Master of Morton, and secondly of Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus, to agree to give Lord Spynie her hand in marriage, writing letters to both parties to urge their marriage.

[8] The English ambassador Robert Bowes described Jean Lyon in 1592 as the "late lady and mistress of Arderyre", meaning John Lumsden of Airdrie, who was a supporter of the rebel Earl of Bothwell.