Disaffected perhaps by the lack of reward for his services, Ross became closely involved with the Earl of Annandale in the dissident "Club" of Sir James Montgomerie of Skelmorlie. However, he recanted and, although sent to the Tower of London in July 1690, was eventually released without prosecution. The disparaging comment of Ross's contemporary, George Lockhart of Carnwath, was that:Lord Ross was a great persecutor of the Whigs; then he joined them at the Revolution; then plotted to restore King James; then did turn tail, and did accuse all he knew of that party