[1] In March 1516, the infant James V of Scotland and the Governor, Regent Albany leased Patrick to rights to mine for gold, silver, tin and other metals on Crawford Moor and other places.
[2] In 1520, as a result of rivalry between the Hamiltons and the 'Red' Douglases, he helped instigate the street brawl in Edinburgh known as 'Cleanse the Causeway'.
Cardinal Wolsey was told that Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus killed Patrick by his own hand.
[3] His widow, Margaret Stewart, contracted a marriage with a John Hamilton, which was annulled on grounds of affinity in 1530–32.
[citation needed] A daughter was also a Protestant, and for a time wife of the captain of Dunbar Castle.