 They subsequently retained it when, six years later, the monastery was dissolved and its rich lands, scattered across the southern plains of Moray Firth from the approaches to Castle Urquhart in the west to Urquhart-on-Spey in the east, were erected into a barony for him, providing him with the title of Urquhart when he became Lord of Session the following year.Subsequently, Lord Urquhart, 1st Baron of Urquhart was created Lord Fyvie in the Peerage of Scotland, and was later created Earl of Dunfermline.In 1605, he was appointed Lord Chancellor of Scotland, a post he held until his death in 1622.