Stuart in his designs against Morton. After the banishment of those concerned in the Ruthven raid, Lindsay endeavoured to obtain the co-operation of Robert Bowes, the English ambassador, to bring about a reconciliation between the two factions, but his endeavours were unsuccessful. He had gradually won considerable influence with the king, and acquired the reputation of being "the minister whom the court liked best". On this account he was in May 1584 selected by the ministers in and around Edinburgh to induce the king to delay his assent, until a meeting of the assembly, to certain acts circumscribing the authority of the kirk; but as he entered the palace gate he was apprehended and lodged in Blackness Castle. Here he had a remarkable dream, recorded at length by Calderwood. On the fall of Arran shortly afterwards, he was set at liberty. Lindsay was the only one of the ministers of the kirk – with the exception of the "king's own minister" – who complied with the request of the king to pray for Queen Mary before her execution. As chaplain of the king Lindsay accompanied him in October 1589 when he set sail for Norway to bring home his bride, Anne of Denmark. Lindsay preached a sermon at Tønsberg on 16 November, which is commemorated on a surviving painted board, and on 23 November he married them at Oslo. He and Robert Bruce crowned them in the abbey kirk, Edinburgh, on 12 May 1590. At the baptism of the young Prince Henry at Stirling Castle, 23 August 1594, Lindsay delivered a learned speech to the ambassadors in French. Lindsay came to Edinburgh from Falkland Palace in 1600 in order to assure the clergy of the truth of the official version of the Gowrie House conspiracy of 5 August 1600. When the clergy declined to order a general service of thanksgiving for the king's deliverance, a service was conducted by Lindsay at the market cross. On the arrival of the king at Leith, 16 August, Lindsay also preached a thanksgiving sermon in his own church. Soon afterwards he received a special mark of royal favour by his crown provision on 5 November 1600, in accordance with the act for the establishment of a modified episcopacy, to the bishopric of Ross. On 30 September he was also admitted a member of the privy council. His provision was renewed on 22 December 1604,