David Law hid his breviary in the garden at Henry Lee's house in Carlisle in an attempt to disguise his status as a priest.HMC Salisbury Hatfield, 1594-1595, vol. 5 (London, 1894), p. 244. He was imprisoned in England for a year and a half. He said that William Crichton had brought Williamson to Douai and asked him to escort Williamson, because he had previously mentioned a desire to return to Scotland. Crichton assured him there was little danger because Williamson was going to Lord Home and the court of James VI.Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1595-1597 (London, 1869), p. 46, TNA SP 12/252 f.75 & f.77. After 16 months in prison he wrote a petition for his freedom, describing the pain of his diseased leg.M. S Guiseppi, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1595–1597, vol. 12 (Edinburgh, 1952), p. 249 no. 207. After his release, David Law returned to his studies at Louvain and later joined the Catholic mission in Scotland as a secular priest.Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., 'Pray to the Lord of the Harvest': Jesuit Missions to Scotland in the Sixteenth Century', Innes Review, 53:2 (2002), pp. 156, 177: Michael Yellowlees, So strange a monster as a Jesuite: The Society of Jesus in Sixteenth-Century Scotland (House of Lochar, 2003), p. 149: Records of the Scots Colleges at Douai, Rome, Madrid, Valladolid and Ratisbon, vol. 1 (Aberdeen, 1906), p. 5, ad missionem Scoticam, in itinere ab Anglis captus, post incarcerationis annum cum dimidio rediit Lovanium He died at Douai from complications after breaking a leg.Georgii Conaei, De duplici statu religionis apud Scotos (Rome, 1628), p. 68, 'David Lauius dum insequentium apparitorum diligentiam fuga eluderet, perfracto crure in Flandriam delatus, Duaci mortuus est gloriosa, claudicatione splendescens'.
