[4] John Sinclair, Master of Caithness was later imprisoned by his father for making peace with the Murrays.
[5] The Master of Caithness died at Castle Sinclair Girnigoe in 1576,[1] and this was apparently by famine and vermine.
According to Roland Saint-Clair, food was withheld from the Master of Caithness for a few days, he was then supplied with abundantly salted beef.
His remains were interred in the "Sinclair Aisle" in the churchyard of Wick which his father had built some years before.
The inscription over his grave read: "Here lies the entombed ane noble and worthie man, John, Master of Caithness, who departed this life in the 15th day of March, 1576".