[1] Glamis supported the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots with Henry Darnley, and took part in the roundabout raid against James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray.
He was one of those who voted against the queen's divorce, 31 July 1569, and assisted with other seven noblemen in bearing the body of the Regent Moray at his funeral to St Giles' Cathedral, 14 February 1570.
After Moray's death he became a close associate of his kinsman James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, whom in 1571 he accompanied on an embassy to England, in order to defeat proposals to restore Queen Mary to the throne.
[2] Like many Scottish aristocrats, Glamis was often short of money, and seems to have regularly borrowed from the Edinburgh lawyer John Shairp of Houston.
[1] Glamis was accidentally killed on 17 March 1578 in a street brawl in Stirling between his followers and those of David Lindsay, 11th Earl of Crawford.
[4] At the time, several lords had come to Stirling over a power struggle involving Regent Morton and the keepers of the young James VI.