A moment of attempted suppression must arrive, greatly against the personal wishes of Archbishop Hamilton, who dreaded the conflict.
In March 1558, Hamilton courteously remonstrated with Argyll for harbouring Douglas.

He himself was "heavily murmured against" for his slackness in the case of Argyll, by churchmen and other "well given people," and by Mary of Guise, whose daughter, by April 24, 1558, was married to the Dauphin of France.

Argyll replied that he knew how the Archbishop was urged on, but declined to abandon Douglas.
"It is a far cry to Loch Awe"; Argyll, who died soon after, was too powerful to be attacked.

But, sometime in April 1558 apparently, a poor priest of Forfarshire, Walter Myln, who had married and got into trouble under Cardinal Beaton, was tried for heresy, and, without sentence of a secular judge, it is said, was burned at St.Andrews, displaying serene courage, and hoping to be the last martyr in Scotland.

Naturally there was much indignation; if the Lords and others were to keep their Band they must bestir themselves.