Lennox had possessed himself of the revenues of the see of Glasgow, having prevailed on Robert Montgomerie, minister of Stirling, to become a tulchan bishop, with a pension.
[7] In August 1595 Galloway preached to James VI and Anne of Denmark at Falkland Palace, in his sermon speaking the creation of Eve from Adam's side and of the duties of man and wife to each other, and the queen was said to have paid attention to his advice.
[8] On 19 August 1596, at Gowrie House in Perth, he questioned Christian Stewart in Nokwalter, who was accused of causing the death of Patrick Ruthven by witchcraft.
[9] He refused to subscribe the 'band,' or engagement, by which James sought on 20 December 1596 to bind ministers not to preach against the royal authority, objecting that the existing pledges of loyalty were sufficient.
Galloway represents the bishops as arguing that to make any alterations in the prayer-book would be tantamount to admitting that popish recusants and deprived puritans had suffered for refusing submission to what "now was confessed to be erroneous".
[2] Galloway was popular as a preacher, and his services were sought in 1606 as one of the ministers of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh; first on 3 June by the town council, then on 12 September by the four congregations which met there.
On 27 June 1617, he signed the Protestation for the Liberties of the Kirk, directed against the legislative measures by which James sought to override the authority of the General Assembly.
[4] He married: (1) 1 May 1583, Matilda Guthrie, who died June 1592, and had issue — (2) in 1600, Katherine, daughter of James Lawson (Knox's colleague), widow of Gilbert Dick, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh.