[1] In 1583, Hector Munro was appointed to the Chaplainry of Obsdale as is confirmed by a grant from James VI of Scotland.
[1] In the same year king James VI also granted to Hector Munro the Deanery of Ross, even though it was opposed by Alexander Urquhart, the former dean who had been deposed.
[1] Katherine Ross, who was Hector Munro's step mother was by many of her contemporaries believed to be a murderess, a poisoner and an employer of witches and sorcerers.
One of the witches who was repeatedly mentioned at the trial, but who seems to have evaded capture had the unusual name of Marjorie (or Marionne) “Neyne McAllester alias Laskie Loucart”.
[3] On 9 March 1593 there is a commission, among others to Hector Munro, 17th Baron of Foulis, to apprehend George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly (later 1st Marquess), William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus, Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll, Sir Patrick Gordon of Auchindown, Sir James Chisholme of Dunborne, Mr James Gordon, Mr William Ogilvie and Mr Robert Abercromby for trafficking Paptists, “treasonable practices against the true religion of the realm”.
[1] Hector Munro was also to apprehend the persons responsible for the burning of Donibristle and the murder of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray.
[1] On 12 April 1595, a bond is signed at the Chanonry of Ross between Hector Munro of Foulis, Lachlan Mackintosh of Dunchton, John Grant of Freuchy and William Innes of Carossie.
By an Act of the Privy Council of Scotland, dated 31 January 1602, Hector Munro of Foulis is ordered at the same time as the other principal Highland chiefs, to hold a general muster and "wapinshaw" of his followers on 10 March in that year, and to enroll the names of all the persons mustered, with the form and manner of their arms, and report the same to the King on an early date thereafter.