Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tukuna a Carstares ki te Pourewa o Ranana; i te tau e whai ake nei, 1675, i whakawhitihia ia ki Edinburgh Castle. I whakaponohia ia e pa ana ki a Sir James Stewart i roto i te kaituhi o te pukapuka pukapuka "He Kaute mo nga Aue a Scotland na te D. o Lauderdale's Ministrie, i whakawhiwhia ma te ngakau mahaki ki tona Rangatira Tapu" (1674). Ko John Maitland, 1st Duke o Lauderdale i whai i a Carstares ki te whakaae i uru ia ki te taarua o te panui. I whakamahia e Lauderdale te riri o te whakamamae o te hu, ka taea te whakamahi ture i Scotland; engari kaore a Carstares i whakamamaetia. I te marama o Akuhata 1679 ka tukuna ia, ko ia tētahi o ngā kaiwhiwhi a te kāwanatanga ki te whakaaro o Scotland i muri i te
Te Pakanga o Bothwell Bridge. Na reira kaore e taea e ia te William Carstares ko ia te kaiwhakaatu whakapae nui i te whakawakanga o William Staley (te tuatahi o nga whakawakanga o te Papa Papa) i te marama o Noema 1678, ahakoa ko Carstares he tangata Scotland ano hoki, me tana ingoa ano hoki e kiia ana he kaihoko matauranga.