Ia tusi se faaauauga o lenei palakalafa - Na taofia Carstares i le Tower o Lonetona; i le tausaga na sosoo ai, i le 1675, na siitia atu ai o ia i le maota o Edinburgh. Na talitonu o ia e fesootaʻi atu iā Sir James Stewart i le tusiaina o se tamaʻitusi "An Account of Scotland's Grievances by reason of the D. of Lauderdale's Ministrie, humbly tendered to his Sacred Majesty" (1674). O John Maitland, o le 1st Duke o Lauderdale, na ia faatalitonuina Carstares e faapea, sa iai sona vaega i le lolomiina o le tamaʻitusi. Na faaaogā e Lauderdale le faamataʻu atu i le faapuapuagatiaina o le seevae, lea e mafai ona faaaogā faaletulafono i Sikotilani; ae e leʻi faapuapuagatiaina Carstares. Iā Aokuso 1679 na faasaʻolotoina ai o ia, o se tasi o tagata na faasalaina e le malo i manatu o tagata Sikotilani ina ua mavae le Taua i Bothwell Bridge
. O lea la, e lē mafai ona avea o ia ma Viliamu Carstares, o lē na avea ma molimau sili o le moliaga i le faamasinoga o Viliamu Staley (o le uluaʻi faamasinoga o le taupulepulega a Pope) ia Novema 1678, e ui lava o Carstares o se tagata Sikotilani, ma e pei o lona igoa, ua fai mai na galue o se sui sooupu.