 The charges, which also included one of reducing the size of the Coldingham convent to a prior and two or three resident monks, resulted, after a hearing at Holyrood on 28 April 1379 before the bishop of St Andrews in full consistory, in Claxton being deprived and replaced as Prior of Coldingham by Michael of Inverkeithing, monk of Dunfermline.Dunfermline Abbey certainly gained actual control and the Abbot of Dunfermline and Prior Michael were able to give Coldingham lands to George Dunbar, earl of March in 1380 and, probably in 1382, to Sir John Swinton.Prior Claxton, nominally still the lawful Prior in English eyes, lived (certainly from 1381 to 1382) as a lodger in the Durham cell nearest Scotland, Holy Island Priory, paying 2s.