James Stuart, 3rd Earl of Moray

However, in June 1595 he wrote a joint letter with his uncle Henry Stewart, Commendator of Inchcolm, explaining he would not travel.

[2] On 16 February 1598, he was made charge, along with his tutors and curators, to inter the body of his deceased father, which until that time remained unburied.

So, on 23 February 1603, the two parties were nominally reconciled and the King declared a decree of arbitration on the matter, on 3 May 1604.

So on 11 August 1607, just after he came of age, he received from Parliament the ratification needed to bolster his entitlements to those family charters, especially those given to his grandfather James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, and to ensure the inheritance of these titles by his own descendants.

This was arranged by the King, James, to heal the ongoing feud between the Stewart and Gordon families.