During the American Revolution, the British forces under Captain James Wallace raided Prudence Island for livestock and engaged in a skirmish with American forces, losing approximately a dozen soldiers.
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The family remained in occupation until Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh sold the property to James Wallace about 1789.
In 1693 James Wallace referred to them being often found in Orkney: "After Storms of Westerly Wind amongst the Sea-weed, they find commonly in places expos'd to the Western-Ocean these Phaseoli . . . . From the West-Indies, where they commonly grow, they may be thrown in on Ireland, the Western parts of Scotland and Orkney".
Wallace was the son of James Wallace (1729–1783), a barrister who served as Solicitor General for England and Wales and as Attorney General, by Elizabeth, only daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Simpson, Esquire, of Carleton Hall, Cumberland.
England - In 2011 on 18th September Shakespeare's Globe's Read Not Dead project gave the play a fully staged reading, directed by James Wallace, with Linda Marlowe as Catherine de Medici, Dominic Rowan as the Guise, Ben Deery as Henry III, and Charlie Anson as Navarre.