When the English army came to Longniddry before the battle of Pinkie in September 1547, the Duke of Somerset heard that Hugh's pregnant wife was in the house.
[8] In July 1594 he was sent to England with Richard Cockburn of Clerkington and James Bellenden to ask Queen Elizabeth for sudsidy money.
[9] He returned to Edinburgh on 19 August and told the English ambassador Robert Bowes that he had seen wagons with presents for the baptism of Prince Henry at Berwick-upon-Tweed.
[11] When Anne of Denmark came to Stirling Castle in May 1603 to collect Prince Henry and was refused, she sent George Douglas as her messenger to King James in London.
[12] King James read the letter and heard George Douglas's report of the incident, and he sent the Duke of Lennox to Stirling.