[4] He brought the king's instructions during the election of burgh officials in October 1584, directing the voters to select his choices, including James Stewart, Earl of Arran as Provost.
[6] In January 1587, he was again in London with Sir Robert Melville, William Keith of Delny, and Alexander Stewart who were pleading for the life of Mary, Queen of Scots.
[7][8] According to David Moysie, on 20 February 1587, James VI sent to him to Berwick-upon-Tweed to meet an incoming English diplomat and ask if it was true that Mary, Queen of Scots had been executed.
[17] In December 1593, Young was appointed to a committee to audit the account of money spent by the Chancellor, John Maitland of Thirlestane, on the royal voyages.
The English diplomat Robert Bowes heard that she had come to Scotland because of her "inordinate love" for one of the queen's servants, and so her story of a prophecy was disregarded and her "credit cracked".
[22] George Young received a fee or pension of £100 Scots from William Schaw, who was Chamberlain of Dunfermline and Ettrick Forest for Anne of Denmark.
[24] A memo written by the king for Young on 17 April 1594 outlines a variety of concerns; the problem of the Earl of Bothwell and the complicity of the English ambassador Lord Zouche; fears that Bothwell might kidnap Prince Henry; Danish support for James against England; Peter Young's mission to Denmark; Anne of Denmark's household and her lordship of Dunfermline.
[25] In March 1595 Father James Myreton, a Jesuit priest, and brother of the Laird of Cambo, was detained at Leith by David Lindsay, and when brought to the king.
He brought a jewel from the Cardinal to wear on a chain that depicted the Crucifixion made of gold, crystal, and bone, which James VI gave to Anne of Denmark.
[29] In 1601 Young was selected to interview the goldsmith Thomas Foulis and the cloth merchant Robert Jousie who had become major financiers of the royal household.
In 1618 the Privy Council wrote to her for George Young's papers, because he had drafted a patent given to the ambassador of the Estates, or Dutch Republic, Walraven III van Brederode at the time of the baptism of Prince Henry in 1594.