The plea for the dissolution of the tie was "the open wound" he still bore, and which paternal wrath deemed a disqualification for marriage.
[2] John Balfour, the "Covenanter", was historically "of Kinloch", not of Burleigh, and the principal actor in the assassination of Archbishop Sharp in 1679.
He fought at Drumclog and at Bothwell Bridge, and is said to have escaped to Holland, and to have there tendered his services to the Prince of Orange.
[2] It is generally supposed that John Balfour of Burley died at sea on a return voyage to Scotland.
Scott noted in his Old Mortality that in 1808 a Lieutenant-Colonel Balfour de Burleigh was commandant of the troops of the King of Holland in the West Indies.