sentences:  On 17 July 1688, he was created a baronet, of Fountainhall, East Lothian in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, with special remainder to the eldest surviving male heir of his "third" marriage.This patent was successfully contested and "reduced" (cancelled)
  
  on 19 February 1692 having been replaced on 25 January 1690 with a new Letters Patent altering the succession to include his eldest surviving son from any marriage.He died on 2 April 1692, in his 97th year and was interred in the Lauder vault within Greyfriars Kirk.