James VI had been playing a game in the Peel of Linlithgow with the Laird of Dunipace, and said he fought on Wemyss' side.
[2] In 1592 he (and his father) provided a refuge at Wemyss castle for the Anne of Denmark's Danish lady-in-waiting Margaret Winstar whose partner John Wemyss of Logie had plotted with Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell against the king.
[5] He held Archie Armstrong of Whitehaugh from the Scottish borders at Wemyss Castle for a time.
John Wemyss and other lairds complained about this duty, and in April 1597 James VI wrote to him and asked him to bring Armstrong as a prisoner to be kept at Falkland Palace instead.
[6] In the summer of 1599 James VI wrote to him for a hackney riding horse to send to Falkland Palace for the use of the French ambassador, Philippe de Béthune, brother of the Duke of Sully.