He was fined £1,200 Scots due to Middleton's Act of 1662 for having complied with Cromwell's forces.

[3] One source says he led the main attack "in which being unsuccessful, a rout ensued, but he managed to escape, along with William Veitch, a preacher, who afterwards wrote an account of the affair, and lived to be minister of Peebles.

[7][8] For the space of sixteen years thereafter, notwithstanding all the efforts made to find him, he remained undiscovered.

[9] About the month of February 1682, he was taken prisoner and carried to Edinburgh, where, on 7 April that same year, he was sentenced to be executed.

[10] Through the testimony of physicians that he was in a dying condition, he was liberated by the Council, upon giving bond that as soon as he recovered he would return to that place of confinement.