On 22 May 1605 he was granted Plumpton Park in Hesket in the Forest of Inglewood, then regarded as part of Debatable Lands between Scotland and England.
He became Keeper of the Privy Purse in 1611 in the place of Robert Jousie, a textile merchant and partner of the goldsmith Thomas Foulis.
Abraham Harderet brought the letter, which explained that she had been obliged to buy jewels from him to give as gifts at her wedding, many more than she could pay for, and he could show Murray the bills she had signed.
[7] In 1621 he became Member of Parliament for Guildford,[8] and bought Tyninghame House in East Lothian from the Lauder family for 200,000 merks.
[16] William Couper, Bishop of Galloway asked him to buy saddles for his wife and daughter, because they were much cheaper in London.
[17] The lawyer Thomas Hamilton advised him about the ownership of a hoard of gold coins found by a tenant on his lands near Lincluden.
[19] His son James (d. 1658), later Earl of Annandale and Viscount Stormont, was baptised in the Chapel Royal at Holyrood Palace on 19 August 1617, William Couper preached and Anne Livingstone, Countess of Eglinton, presented the child.
[2] Many of Murray's papers were transferred to the collection of James Balfour of Denmiln and are now held by the National Library of Scotland.