[1] On 25 October 1605 he slew, "under trust", his kinsman, Sir Walter Lindsay of Balgavie.
[2] On this account he was "placed at the horn",[3] but succeeded in eluding capture, owing, it would appear, to the remissness of the Privy Council, who were on 10 October rebuked by King James VI.
Ultimately his relatives, to prevent further alienations of the estates, placed him under surveillance in Edinburgh Castle, where he died in February 1621.
[7] Thomas Henderson wrote in the Dictionary of National Biography that "In David Lindsay, ... the prodigality and lawlessness, which had more or less characterised the descendants of the 'wicked master', reached their climax".
[citation needed] Before they divorced, they had a daughter, Jean, who eloped with a public herald—a "jockey with the horn"—and latterly became a beggar.