| In September 1525 he granted a bond of manrent to Robert, Lord Maxwell. On 11 July 1526 he and Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig and their friends and followers killed Thomas Maclellan of Bombie, in the High Street of Edinburgh. More than one remission followed, the earliest, granted within a few days of the event, bearing the signature of King James V, and the dead man's son and heir afterwards granted letters of slains. Lochinvar and his brother William were among those 'choyce gentlemen' accompanying the Earl of Angus who, on 25 July 1526, took part in the defeat near Melrose of Sir Walter Scott of Branxholm in his attempt to free King James from the power of the Douglases. On 6 or 16 March 1528 he was appointed King's Chamberlain for the Lordship of Galloway for five years. In November 1529 he was summoned with the Laird of Garlics to meet the King at Ayr. He was in the King's suite on his matrimonial expedition to France in 1536. On 1 April 1537 he was constituted Governor of the town and castle of Dumbarton, and Chamberlain of that lordship, then in the Crown by forfeiture; and on 28 July of the same year he was on the assize for the trial of John, Lord Glamis. He held also the appointment of Captain of the castle of Douglas for five years from 1537. In April 1538 he was called upon to furnish men towards the retinue of the King's ambassador to France for the espousal of Marie of Guise. He was reported incorrectly as drowned after the rout of Solway Moss, 24 November 1542; his pledges were three cousins unnamed, two of them with Lord Scrope, and one with Lord Conyers. He was in Parliament in 1543 and 1546. On 26 June 1545 he signed the band with France against England, and three days later he was one of the sureties for Robert, Master of Maxwell, for the keeping of the castles of Carlaverock, Lochmaben, and Thrieve in the interests of Queen Mary. In 1546 there were before the Privy Council for adjustment certain questions between him and Gilbert, third Earl of Cassillis, one of which had reference to the Abbey of Glenluce and another to the Abbey of Crossraguel. He built the aisle to the old church of Dairy, afterwards used as the family burial-place: over the window in the south end is a stone with the arms of Gordon and Crichton impaled, and the date apparently 1546.9 |