When the Duke of Albany returned to Scotland as governor on 20 September 1523, he sent from Dumbarton Castle to Lord Sempill for oxen to pull the new guns brought from France.
[3] In 1540, William had to pay the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland £66-13s-4d as the cost of a pardon or a remission for a crime committed by himself and his friends.
[5] The marriage was commemorated with carved stone heraldry at Castle Semple Collegiate Church.
[6] In April 1534 Robert had reached his majority, and James V exacted a financial penalty for his "non-entry" to the Semple lands.
After William Sempill's death, she married John Campbell of Skipnish, their daughter Jean was an ancestor of the Marquis of Bute.