In Pitscottie's story, Lindsay compared the forthcoming encounter to a wager of a gold rose-noble against a bent halfpenny.
After the battle of Flodden, in December 1513, Lord Lindsay was appointed a counsellor to Margaret Tudor.
The arrangement did not last as Margaret married the Earl of Angus and John Stewart, Duke of Albany became regent.
[1] In May 1524 Regent Albany appointed Patrick and his son and grandson joint Sheriffs of Fife.
As the historian Norman Macdougall notes, Patrick was the grandfather of the author Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie.