Instead, the crown negotiated for George to inherit, with the condition that he pay 4,000 merks to the sixth earl's widow, Helen, Dowager Countess of Erroll, and that one of his sons marry Jean Hay "at the King’s pleasure.

[5] He married his cousin Lady Jean Hay, c. June 1552, daughter of the sixth Earl of Erroll and had issue.

In September 1587 she complained to the Privy Council about Colin Campbell of Glen Lyon, who came with a force of 100 men to her house of Inchestuill and assaulted her.

[9] In 1598 she sent her servant John Smaill with a shopping list to London to buy household goods to replace those lost in 1593 and 1594.

[10] On 14 April 1604, the Privy Council of Scotland charged George Hay with having "violently seized upon his stepfather" and held him captive in the fortress of "Blairfudie" or Blairfindy.