 However he was not liked by the Duchess and she conspired against him with his enemies in the City of Edinburgh, within and without the council, and Lord Abbotshall was later stripped of his offices on 1 December 1673.He was readmitted a Privy Counsellor, on 5 August 1675.He lived long enough to take some pleasure to see many of his enemies who had conspired against him, Kincardine, Dirleton, Carrington, and Lauderdale, all turned out of their offices more ignominiously than he.