[1] John Maxwell subsequently quarrelled with the 7th Earl of Morton, and he was barred by the Privy Council from attending Parliament in 1607.
[2] He escaped in October and fled to Dumfriesshire, where he arranged to meet the Laird of Johnstone in April 1608.
During the meeting, at which both parties had given their word of truce, Johnstone was shot in the back and killed by Maxwell.
He fled to France, but was convicted in his absence of treason, as well as of other killings and the escape from Edinburgh Castle.
On his return to Scotland in 1612 he was arrested, and attempted to make peace with the Johnstones by proposing a marriage between the two families.