[1] Additionally, he was Precentor of Dunkeld Cathedral between 1530 and 1534,[2] and in 1532 almost took part in an exchange with Walter Maxwell for the Chancellorship of the diocese of Moray.
[5] When Mary of Guise took over the government from Châtellerault in 1554, she acknowledged Crichton's position and Campbell appears to have given up his claims to the bishopric.
[7] Towards the end of the decade Protestantism took hold in Scotland, and in 1560 the Scots formally broke their ecclesiastical ties with Rome.
[8][4]: 76 When the Jesuit Nicholas de Gouda visited Scotland in the summer of 1562 to initiate a Counter-Reformation, Crichton was the only cleric to give him an interview.
[9] Crichton's solid Catholicism was further revealed four years later when he assisted with the Catholic baptism of the infant Prince James in 1566.