[3] Phillimore calls him a Writer to the Signet which would make him a senior lawyer.

[5] He was indicted, early in August, 1681, before a Committee of the Privy Council on a threefold charge: 1.

In proof of this last charge, it is said, that "upon one of the rebels, when taken and examined, were found particular letters addressed to him".

[7] Refusing to depone, Lin was fined in the sum of £500 sterling and ordained to be kept a prisoner in the Bass until the fine was paid; and, longer should the Council deem fit.

He was sent to the Bass Rock on the same day as John Spreul (apothecary), the covenanter with the longest known sentence on the prison island of the Forth.