 The chief's eldest son, another Laurence, was implicated in the conspiracy known as the "Ruthven Raid" led by the Clan Ruthven, to kidnap the young King James VI of Scotland and was therefore exiled in 1582.The ship in which he and his co-conspirator, the Master of Morton sailed in was lost at sea.When the 5th Lord Oliphant died leaving a daughter but no son, the daughter's husband, a Douglas and brother of the Earl of Angus, claimed the Oliphant peerage in the female line.