Succeeded his father as Commendator of Holyroodhouse Abbey 21 Feb 1581-82. On 11 March 1587-88 he held a charter of Alhammer or Whitekirk to his father in life rent and himself in fee, with remainder to his four brothers successively.
Succeeded his father on 2 July 1593 as an Ordinary Lord of Session and was twice chosen as one of the Lords on the Articles.

Sworn to the Privy Council and accompanied James VI to England in 1603.
In 1604 and 1605 he was a Commissioner of Parliament and served in the Privy Council. He was created a peer under the title of Lord Holyroodhouse on 20 Dec., 1607 by King James I of the United Kingdom (King James VI of Scotland) and the lands and baronies of Dunrod, Meikle and Little Kirklands in the Stewarty of Kirkcudbright, the monastery of Holyroodhouse, and Alhammer or Whitekirk in the county of Haddington were created into a free temporal lordship for him and his male heirs., or the male heirs of his father, or his “heirs and assigns whatsoever.”

She was Lady-in-waiting to Anna of Denmark, the queen of James VI.

Date of contract

Served heir to his father 1/17/1629.
Died unmarried.
In 1640, was apprenticed to Robert Chrystie, barber, in Edinburgh.
Made a burgess of Dunfermline Sept. 2, 1620, for his public service. “His connection with the Burgh arose through his relationship, on his mother’s side, with the Fotheringhames of Powrie.”1789
Sold (by subscription) the fish tithes of Leith and Newhaven, which was confirmed by royal charter June 11, 1631 to North Leith.

This appears to be the Anne Bothwell referred to in the song, Lady Bothwell’s Lament. However, she is the granddaughter rather than the daughter of the Bishop of Orkney. She bore Erskine a son, under promise of marriage, but was deserted when he was killed.

Anna was the executrix of her father’s estate.

The theme of Lady Bothwell’s Lament was also used in: Intermezzi, Opus 117, No. 1, 2, 3 (1892) by Johannes Brahms