James V set a penalty of 100,000 merks for this transaction, so that earldom would come back to the crown.
The 9th Earl, Lindsay of Edzell, then chose to leave the earldom, not to his own sons, but to the son of the Wicked Master of Crawford, another David Lindsay.
A modern historian Jamie Cameron argued that this outcome was envisaged by James V when he set the penalty, so that the heirs of the Wicked Master were not excluded from the earldom.
The sequence of events and size of the penalty has been used by other writers as evidence of the greed of James V and Regent Arran.
This biography of an earl in the Peerage of Scotland is a stub.