character, 4; his version of the Gowrie mystery, 6; reasons for doubting
his guilt, 7; untrustworthiness of his word, 8; substantial character of
his tale, 9; love of the chase, 11; political troubles, 11; hunting
costume, 12; concerning him, _facts drawn from Lennox_, 13 _et seq._;
starts for the hunt in Falkland Park, 13; the Master of Ruthven
interviews him before the hunt, 13; goes to Gowrie's house, 14;
_observers' accounts of the transactions implicating him_, 20-34; his
dinner at Gowrie House, 20; goes upstairs on a quiet errand, 20;
Cranstoun's statement that the King had ridden away, 20; search for him
in the house, 21; Gowrie confirms his departure, 22; but--the King's
horse still in the stable, 22; heard calling from the window, 23;
struggle with the Master of Ruthven, 24, 25, 26; the man in the turret
behind the King's back, 25; sanctions the stabbing of the Master of
Ruthven by Ramsay, 26; shut up in the turret, 29, 30; kneels in prayer in
the chamber bloody with the corpse of Gowrie, 32; _his own narrative of
the affair_, 35 _et seq._; theory of the object of the Ruthvens, 37; the
Master of Ruthven's statement to him of the cloaked man and the pot full
of coined gold pieces, 39; suspects the Jesuits of importing foreign gold
for seditious purposes, 40; his horror of 'practising Papists,' 40;
hypothesis of his intended kidnapping, 37, 42; importance of the ride of
the Master and Henderson to Falkland and its concealment to the
substantiation of his narrative, 44, 45, 46; asserts Henderson's presence
at Falkland, 46; rides, followed by Mar and Lennox, after the kill to
Perth, 47; surmises regarding Ruthven, 47; motives for the Master
acquiring his favour regarding the Abbey of Scone, 48; asks Lennox if he
thinks the Master settled in his wits, 48; pressed by the Master to come
on and see the man and the treasure, 48; met by Gowrie with sixty men,
49; presses the Master for a sight of the treasure, 49; the Master asks
him to keep the treasure a secret from Gowrie, 49; Gowrie's uneasy
behaviour while the King dines, 49, 50; despatches Gowrie to the Hall
with the grace-cup, and follows the Master alone to the turret to view
the treasure, 50, 51; the question of the doors he passed through to
reach the turret chamber and their locking by the Master, 51, 52, 53, 54;
threatened by the Master with the dagger of a strange man in the turret
chamber, 55; denounced for the execution of the Master's father, 56; his
harangue to the Master excusing his action, and promising forgiveness if
released, 56; Ruthven goes to consult Gowrie, leaving him in the custody
of the man, 56; questions the man about the conspiracy, 57; orders the
man to open the window, 58; the Master returns and essays to bind his
hands with a garter, 58; struggles with the Master and shouts Treason
from the window, 58; rescued by Ramsay, who wounds the Master, 59;
returns to Falkland, 59; _Henderson's narrative of events_, 60 _et seq._;
his interview with the Master and journey to Gowrie House, 65; at dinner,
65; Henderson's account of the struggle in the turret chamber mainly in
accord with the King's narrative, 66; discrepancy between his and
Henderson's accounts of the disarming of Ruthven, 69, 104; causes
Oliphant to be lodged in the Gate House, Westminster, 76; subsequently
releases him and restores his property, 76, 77; maintains his to be the
true account of the Gowrie affair and disregards discrepancies in
evidence, 78; on the way to Gowrie House had informed Lennox of Ruthven's
tale of the pot of gold, 94; theory of his concoction of the tale, 95;
despatches Preston to Elizabeth with his version of the Gowrie affair,
96; rates the Edinburgh preachers for refusing to thank God for his
delivery from a 'Gowrie plot,' 101; reasons for his ferocity towards the
recalcitrant preachers, 102; his alleged 'causes' for the death of
Gowrie, 104; Bruce states that he is convinced, on Mar's oath chiefly, of
his innocence, 106; under interrogation by Bruce, 107, 108; subsequent
persecution of Bruce, 109; _objections taken by contemporary sceptics to
his narrative_, 111-117; grounds for a hereditary feud between him and
Gowrie, 118; early years of his reign, 119; the Raid of Ruthven, 119; his
acquiescence in the execution of Gowrie's father, 123; Arran's influence
over him, 119, 123; suspected of favouring the Catholic earls of the
North, 124; Gowrie, Atholl and Bothwell in alliance against him, 125;
their manifesto to the Kirk, 125; Gowrie's relique at Padua forwarded to
him by Sir Robert Douglas, 127; early correspondence with Gowrie, 127;
his alleged jealousy of Gowrie, 130; gives Gowrie a year's respite from
pursuit of his creditors, 131; thwarted by Gowrie in his demands for
money, 131; romantic story of his discovery of the Queen's ribbon on the
Master's neck, 132; his letters inviting Atholl, the Master and Gowrie to
Falkland, 134, 135, note; his motives for killing both the Ruthvens, 139,
140; method attributed to him by his adversaries on which he might have
carried out a plot against the Ruthvens, 142; plots against him
encouraged by the English Government, 161; his life aimed at by
witchcraft, 198. See 'The Verie Manner of the Erll of Gowrie,' &c.
Jesuits, suspected by James of importing foreign coin for seditious
purposes, 40
* * * * *
KEITH, Andrew, at Padua, 126, 248
Ker, George (Catholic intriguer with Spain), 154
Ker of Newbattle, at Padua with Gowrie, 248
Ker, Robert, of Newbattle, at Padua, 126
Kirk, the, the King's version of the Gowrie plot discredited by, 36
Kirkcaldy of Grange, in defence of Edinburgh Castle, 152; hanged on the
fall of the castle, 153
* * * * *
LENNOX, Duke of, at the King's hunt in Falkland Park, 12, 47; his account
of what followed, 13 _et seq._; accompanies James to Gowrie House, 14;
his opinion of the Master of Ruthven and the story of the pitcher of gold
coins, 14; at Gowrie House with the King, 19; his version and that of
others of the transactions which brought about the deaths of Gowrie and
the Master, 20-34; questioned by James as to the sanity of the Master,
48; informed by James of the Master's story of the gold coins, 94, 95; at
the slaughter of the Ruthvens, 86, 88, 119, 124; married to Gowrie's
sister Sophia, 124
Lesley, suspected as the man in the turret, 62
Letter I (Logan to--), 167, 174, 185, 188, 189, 196, 200, 216, 217, 223,
224, 225, 226, 228, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, 257, 258
Letter II (Logan to Bower), 183, 184, 185, 188, 189, 195, 205, 208, 224,
228, 229, 239, 258, 259
Letter III (Logan to--), 200, 216, 217, 223, 224, 228, 232, 233, 234,
235, 239, 259, 260
Letter IV (Logan to Gowrie), cited, 166, 167, 170, 173, 174, 175, 176,
177, 178, 179, 181, 182, 186, 187, 190, 191, 192, 194, 195, 196, 197,
199, 202, 206, 207, 215, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 228, 229, 230,
231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 260-263
Letter V (Logan to--), 200, 215, 216, 217, 223, 224, 228, 232, 233, 234,
235, 263, 264
Lindores, at the slaughter of the Ruthvens, 19, 20, 21
Lindsay, James, at Padua with Gowrie, 126, 248
Lindsay, Lord, surety for Lord Robert Stewart, 153
Lindsay, Rev. David, sent to tell James's story of his escape from the
Gowrie plot at the Cross, Edinburgh, 101
Lindsay, Sir Harry, Laird of Kinfauns, Sprot withdraws his charge against
him, 217
Locke, Henry (Cecil's go-between and agent in conspiracy against James),
160
Logan, Matthew, 187, 189, 193, 203; bearer of letters from Logan to
Bower, 211, 212, 213; account of Bower's reception of them, 213; denies
every word attributed to him by Sprot, 213, 220
Logan, Sir Robert (father of Logan of Restalrig), 150, 205, 206
Logan of Restalrig, his name on Bothwell's list of Catholic nobles, 129;
surety for Lord Robert Stewart, 153; marries Elizabeth Macgill, and is
divorced from her, 153; on terms both with Protestant and Catholic
conspirators, 154, 155, 156; diplomatic ambitions, 156; on the packed
jury which acquits Archibald Douglas, 157; relations with the Master of
Gray, 157; a partisan, with Gowrie's father, of Bothwell, 157; helps
himself to the plate-chest of Nesbit of Newton, 158; bound over not to
put Fastcastle in the hands of the King's enemies, 158; his character
from Lord Willoughby, 159; intimacy with the Mowbrays, 160; sells all his
landed property at the time of the Gowrie plot, 161, 205; erratic
behaviour previous to his death, 161; death, 161, 162; compromising
papers from him found on his notary Sprot, 162; under torture Sprot
confesses these papers to be his own forgeries, 162; on examination
before the Privy Council Sprot persists in Logan's complicity in the
Gowrie plot, 163, 170; his exhumed remains brought into court and tried
for treason, 164; compromising letters, 164, 165; his family forfeited,
165; production of alleged plot-letters at his posthumous trial, 168,
175; contents of Letter IV to Gowrie, 176; use made of the letters by the
Government, 179, 181; letters from and to Gowrie, 183; letter to Bower,
183, 184, 185; conduct immediately before and after Gowrie's death, 187;
his scheme to get possession of Dirleton, 189; his keep Fastcastle, where
it is said James was to have been carried, 193; charge of conspiracy to
murder James made in the Indictment in his posthumous trial, 193; faint
evidence that he was connected with the Gowrie plot, 194; with Bower at
Coldinghame on the failure of the plot, 195; memorandum to Bower and
Bell, 195; singular behaviour in trusting his letters to Bower, 202;
burns Ruthven's and Clerk's letters, 202; letter to Baillie of
Littlegill, 202; events at his Yule at Gunnisgreen, 203; takes Sprot into
his confidence, 204; discourages the idea of bringing Lord Home into the
plot, 207, 208; conversation with Lady Home about Dirleton, 208; his
visit to London, 210; letter to Bower, and Sprot's answer, 211; fears the
effect of Bower's rash speeches, 212; forged letters attributed to him,
215, 216, 217; partner in a ship with Lord Willoughby, 218; his letter to
Gowrie the model for Sprot's forgeries, 177, 221; motives for his sale of
his lands, 228
Logan, Robert (son of Logan of Restalrig and Elizabeth Macgill), 153
Lords of the Articles, the, the Gowrie case before, 8; the Logan trial
before, 165
Lumisden, Rev. Mr., present when Sprot confessed to forgery of letters,
186; at the examination of Sprot, 226
Lyn, tailor, Mr. Robert Oliphant's confidences to him about the Gowrie
plot, 73, 75
* * * * *
MACBRECK, witness of the attack on Gowrie, 29
Macgill, Elizabeth, married to Logan of Restalrig, and divorced from him,
153
Maitland of Lethington, 152
Man, the, in the turret, 35, 55, 56, 57, 62, 72
Mar, Earl of, at the King's hunt at Falkland, 12, 47; with James at
Gowrie House, 23, 24, 26, 32; at the Gowrie slaughter, 86, 88; assures
the preacher Bruce of the truth of the King's narrative, 104, 105; is
told by Bruce that he will accept the verdict in the Gowrie case but not
preach Gowrie's guilt, 105; entrusted by James with the care of Prince
Henry, 138; the Queen's plots against him, 138
Mary of Guise (James's grandmother), 118
Mary Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters, 5, 7, 8; declares that
Ruthven (Gowrie's grandfather) persecuted her by his lust, 119
Mason, Peter, 190
Masson, Dr., on the Gowrie mystery, 5
Matthew, Toby (Dean of Durham), Bothwell's statement to him, 251
Maul, one of Sprot's victims, 203
Maxwell, Lord, cited, 193
Melville, Sir Robert, his treachery in procuring the conviction of
Gowrie's father, 120-122
Moncrieff, Hew, present at the slaughter of the Ruthvens, 29, 32; at the
fight in the death chamber, 60; proclaimed, 63; puzzled regarding the
Master's early ride from Perth to Falkland, 137
Moncrieff, John, questions Henderson as to the ride to Falkland, 44, 145;
on Gowrie's silence as to his knowledge of the King's approach, 45; on
Gowrie's actions on the morning of the fatal 5th, 137
Montrose (Chancellor), 64; desires the preachers to thank God in their
churches for the King's 'miraculous delivery,' 100
Montrose, the Master of, conspiring against James, 125
Moray, Earl, his alleged relations with Queen Anne, 2
Morton, Regent, confines Lord Robert Stewart in Linlithgow Castle, 153
Mossman, imprisoned for share in the Gowrie plot, 203
Mowbray, Francis, intriguing with Cecil against James, 159; imprisoned in
Edinburgh Castle, and killed in trying to escape therefrom, 160
Mowbray, Philip, of Barnbogle, surety for Lord Robert Stewart, 153;
intriguing with Cecil against James, 159
Moysie, David, probable writer of the Falkland letter, after the
slaughter of the Ruthvens, 38 note; 100
Murray, George, in attendance on James, 12
Murray, John of Arbany, in attendance on James, 12; with James at the
slaughter of the Ruthvens, 24, 25, 26, 32, 61; wounded by a Ruthven
partisan, 88
Murray, Sir David, on Gowrie's speech against James's demands for money,
131
Murray of Tullibardine, in Perth at the time of the Gowrie tragedy, 28
* * * * *
NAISMITH (surgeon), with James at the Falkland hunt, 47
Napier, Mr. Mark, on Sprot's alleged forgery of the Logan letters, 172,
173, 222; denies that any compromising letters were found, 178
Napier of Merchistoun, his contract as to gold-finding with Logan of
Restalrig, 171
Nesbit, William, of Newton, robbed by Logan, 158
Neville, recommends Gowrie to Cecil as a useful man, 130
Nicholson, George (English resident at the Court of Holyrood), his
account of James's Falkland letter on the Gowrie case, 38; on Robert
Oliphant's indiscretions of speech, 74; communicates to Cecil Oliphant's
statement respecting Cranstoun and Henderson 75 note; refers to a book on
the Ruthven side published in England, 82; cites the King's letter to the
Privy Council regarding the Gowrie plot, 100, 102; informs Cecil of
Gowrie's conversion to Catholicism, 128
* * * * *
OLIPHANT of Bauchiltoun, brother of Robert, 77
Oliphant, Robert, identified by the first proclamation as the man in the
turret, 62; proves an alibi, 62, 72; his confidences to tailor Lyn anent
his foreknowledge of the Gowrie plot, 73; denounces the hanging of
Cranstoun, and affirms the guilt of Henderson, 75; avers that Gowrie
proposed to him in Paris the part offered to Henderson, 75; seeks to
divert Gowrie from his project, 75; his portable property seized by
Captain Heron, and himself imprisoned, 76; released by James and goes
abroad, 76; property subsequently restored, 77; his statement contrasted
with Henderson's, 77; cited, 144
* * * * *
PADUA University, 126
Panton, Mr., on Henderson at Falkland, 64 note; his defence of the
Ruthvens, 80; refers to a contemporary vindication, 80
'Papers relating to the Master of Gray,' cited, 158
Paul, Sir James Balfour, on the Gowrie arms, 245
Perth, gathering of the burgesses of, before Gowrie House on the day of
the slaughter of the Ruthvens, 30, 32
Pitcairn, on Bruce's interrogation of the King, 109; discovery and
publication of Logan of Restalrig's alleged plot-letters, 169
Pittencrieff, Laird of, at Gowrie House on the day when the Ruthvens were
killed, 23
Popular contemporary criticism on the King's narrative, 111-117
Preachers of Edinburgh, the, summoned before the Privy Council to hear
the King's letter on the Gowrie plot read, 99, 100; desired by Montrose
to thank God for the King's 'miraculous delivery,' 100; their reply to
that request, 100, 101; taken to task by James for refusing to thank God
for his delivery from a Gowrie 'conspiracy,' 101; their defence, 101,
102; James's punishment of the recalcitrants, 102; before the King at
Stirling, 103-106; summon Gowrie home to be the leader of the Kirk, 140
Preston, sent by James to Elizabeth with his version of the Gowrie
affair, 96; his account to Sir William Bowes, 97 note
Primrose (Clerk of Council), attests the record of Sprot's examination,
201, 210
Privy Council, Scottish, receipt of a letter from James containing an
account of the Gowrie plot, 99; the preachers summoned to hear it read,
and desired by the Chancellor to thank God in their churches for the
King's escape, 99, 100; report to James that the preachers will not
praise God for his delivery, 101
* * * * *
RAID of Ruthven, the, 119
Ramsay, John, in attendance on James, 12; his share in the proceedings at
Gowrie House which led to the deaths of the Gowries, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,
29, 31, 33, 53, 97; takes part in the slaughter of the Master of Ruthven,
26, 85; kills the Earl of Gowrie, 31
Ray, Andrew (a bailie of Perth), at Gowrie House on the day of the
slaughter of the Ruthvens, 21, 24
Restalrig House, 149, 150
Restalrig, Lady (Logan's wife), 189; her agitation on the knowledge of
the Logan conspiracy, 204; blames Bower for the selling of Fastcastle,
204; her postscript to Logan's letter to Bower after his death, 215;
distressed at Logan's conduct, 220; her daughter by Logan, 220
Restalrig Loch, 149, 150
Restalrig village, 148, 149, 150, 151
'Return from Parnassus,' the, quoted, 126
Rhynd, Mr. (Gowrie's tutor), at Padua with Gowrie, 126; at Gowrie House
when the Ruthvens were killed, 32; tells of the ride to Falkland, 45, 46;
gives the key of the gallery to the Master, 66; on Gowrie's views as to
secrecy in plots, 144
Robertson, Rev. Mr. (Edinburgh preacher), accepts James's narrative, 102
Robertson, William (notary of Perth), his evidence of what he saw near
the death chamber, 60, 61, 97
Roll of Scottish scholars at Padua, 126
Rollock, Mr. (tutor to Gowrie and the Master), 56, 124
Ruthven, Alexander, the Master of (Gowrie's brother), attributed
relations with the Queen, 3; plot to seize the King, 7; _Lennox's
version_ of events, 13 _et seq._; interviews James before the hunt in
Falkland Park, 13; induces the King to visit Perth, to see the pot of
gold coins, 14; his actions at Gowrie House after the King's arrival, 19;
_observers' accounts_ of the transactions which led to his death, 24-34;
stabbed by Ramsay, 26; _James's own narrative_ of the affair, 35 _et
seq._; the King's interview with the Master, 39; the cloaked man and the
lure of the pot of gold pieces, 39-42; his suggested project of
kidnapping James, 42; was accompanied by Henderson in his mission to
James at Falkland, 43, 44; alleged differences with his brother over the
Abbey of Scone, 48, 49; enjoins on James to keep the treasure a secret
from Gowrie, 49; conducts the King alone to view it, 50; duplicity in
securing this privacy, 51; suspicious conduct in locking doors of rooms
passed through, 51, 52, 53; threatens the King with a dagger, 55; James
harangues him and promises forgiveness, 56; goes to consult Gowrie,
leaving James in the custody of the man in the turret, 56; returns and
essays to bind the King's hands with a garter, 58; struggles with the
King, 58; Ramsay enters and stabs him, 59; he is driven down stairs, and
killed by Erskine and Herries, 59; further _details given by Henderson_,
62 _et seq._; his message to Gowrie by Henderson from Falkland, 65; locks
Henderson in the turret, 66; Henderson's narrative of the struggle with
the King, 66; words exchanged with James in the turret chamber, 68; the
'promise,' 68; question of his disarming, 69; romantic story of the
King's discovery of the Queen's ribbon round his neck, 132; gossip about
his relations with the Queen, 133
Ruthven, Alexander (cousin of the Earl of Gowrie), at the slaughter of
the Ruthvens, 29, 32; letter to Logan, 183, 184
Ruthven, Andrew, with the Master, at Gowrie House, on the day of the
slaughter, 43, 157; rides with the Master and Henderson to Falkland, 45,
64, 65; asserts the despatch of Henderson by the Master from Falkland to
acquaint Gowrie of the King's coming, 45, 46, 145
Ruthven, Beatrice (Gowrie's sister), Queen Anne's favourite maid of
honour, 13, 124, 131
Ruthven, Harry, present at the slaughter of the Ruthvens, 29
Ruthven, Lord (Gowrie's grandfather), his part in the murder of Riccio,
118
Ruthven, Mary (sister of Gowrie), married to the Earl of Atholl, 123
Ruthven, Patrick (Gowrie's brother), 124
Ruthven, Sophia (sister of Gowrie), married to Lennox, 124
Ruthven Vindication, the contemporary, 80-93, 252-256
Ruthven, William (Gowrie's brother), 124, 129
* * * * *
ST. TRIDUANA'S Chapel, 150, 151
Salisbury, Marquis of, in possession of genuine letters of Logan, viii,
241
Sanderson, William, on the Gowrie arms, 250
Scone, Abbey of, in the Gowrie inheritance, 48, 54
Scott, Rev. John, his Life of John, Earl of Gowrie, cited, 80 note, 248;
on the Gowrie arms and seal, 250, 251
Scott, Sir Walter, cited, 5
Scrymgeour, Sir James (Constable of Dundee), accused falsely by Sprot,
217
Smith, Rev. Alexander, on the Logan plot-letters, 242
Spottiswoode, Archbishop of Glasgow, his opinion of Sprot, 178; kept in
the dark as to the Logan letters, 179; present at Sprot's examination,
176, 201, 210
Sprot (Logan of Restalrig's law agent), arrested by Watty Doig, 162;
confesses that he knew beforehand of the Gowrie conspiracy, 162;
tortured, and in part recants, 162; persists in maintaining Logan of
Restalrig's complicity in the Gowrie conspiracy, 163, 170; question of
his forgery of letters to prove Logan's guilt, 170, 171; motive for
forging the letters, 172; confesses to the forgery in private
examinations, 173; records of those examinations in possession of the
Earl of Haddington, 173; letters quoted from memory by him, 175; the
indictment against him, 176, 177; Sir William Hart's official statement
of his trial, 177, 178; use made by the prosecution of the Logan letters,
179; his tale of Logan's guilt, 182; sources of his knowledge, 183, 184;
discrepancies in his statements, 184, 185; preachers present at his
confession of forgery, 186; his written deposition, 186; the cause for
which he forged, 187; his conflicting dates, 188; his account of Logan
and Bower's scheme to get Dirleton, 189; excuses for the discrepancies in
his dates, 192; asserts that Logan let Bower keep his letter to Gowrie
for months, 195; steals that letter, 194; confesses to the forgery of
Logan's letter to Bower, 195; and to that of Logan's memorandum to Bower
and Bell, 196; blackmailing operations, 196, 197; forges receipts from
Logan to Heddilstane for blackmailing purposes, 199; his uncorroborated
charges, 202, 203; in the confidence of Logan, 204; his account of
Logan's revels in London, 210; goes with Matthew Logan to Bower to give
answers to Logan's letters, 211; denies that he had received promise of
life or reward, 214; reports an incriminating conversation with Matthew
Logan, 214; confesses forging, for blackmailing purposes, Logan's letters
to Chirnside and the torn letter, 215; swears to the truth of his last
five depositions, 217; on Logan's ship venture with Lord Willoughby, 219;
solemnly confesses to the forgery of the letters in Logan's hand, 220;
details respecting the letter of Logan to Gowrie on which he modelled his
forgeries, 220, 221, 222, 223; the letter found in his kist, 224; copies
endorsed by him found among the Haddington MSS., 224, 225; oral
discrepancies, 225; tried and hanged at Edinburgh, 226; protestations on
the scaffold, 226; small effect of his dying confession on the Kirk
party, 227; motives which prompted his forgeries, 227-231
Stewart, Colonel, his part in the arrest and the conviction of Gowrie's
father, 11, 120, 122; dreads Gowrie's revenge, 140
* * * * *
'THE Verie Manner of the Erll of Gowrie and his brother, their death,
&c.,' a manuscript written in vindication of the Ruthvens, received by
Carey, and forwarded to Cecil, 81; conspectus of its arguments: Dr.
Herries shown the secret parts of Gowrie House a day or two before the
tragedy, 82; preparations by Gowrie's retainers on the fatal day to
accompany him to Dirleton, 82; the visit of the Master to Falkland,
accompanied by Ruthven and Henderson, 83; the Master sends Henderson to
Gowrie with a message that the King will visit him 'for what occasion he
knew not,' 83; the Master tells Craigengelt that Abercromby brought the
King to Gowrie House to take order for his debt, 83, 84; James
accompanied to Perth by sixty horsemen, 84; Gowrie advertised of the
King's approach by Henderson, 84; James meets Gowrie on the Inch of Perth
and kisses him, 85; a hurried dinner, 85; the keys of the house handed to
Gowrie's retainers, 85; the slaughter of the Master in the presence of
four of James's followers, 85; a servant of James brings the news that he
has ridden off, 85; Gowrie hears his Majesty call from the window that
the Master is killed by traitors and James himself in peril, 86; Gowrie
and Cranstoun alone permitted by James's servants to enter the House, 86;
Sir Thomas Erskine's dual _role_, 86; the true account of Gowrie's death,
87; the question of Henderson's presence at Falkland, 83, 87, 92;
derivation of the narrative, 87; on the payment by Gowrie of his father's
debts, 87; points on which the narrative is false, 86-88; points ignored,
88, 89; presents a consistent theory of the King's plot, 89; conflicting
statements, 89, 90, 91, 92; the detail of the locked door, 92
'True Discourse,' quoted on the doors leading to the turret, 52
'True Discovery of the late Treason, the' (unpublished MS.), on the
Gowrie family, 48
Tullibardine, Young, at the slaughter of the Earl of Gowrie, 28, 33;
effort to relieve the King, 60; helps to pacify the populace after the
tragedy, 88
Tytler, Mr., cited, on James VI, 5; on the King's account of the Gowrie
tragedy, 41, 42; on Logan's plot-letters, 169
* * * * *
URCHILL, present at the slaughter of the Gowries, 19
* * * * *
VINDICATION of the Ruthvens, the contemporary, 80 _et seq._, 252 _et
seq._
* * * * *
WALLACE, asks Sprot for silence on Logan's conspiracy, 187
Watson, Rev. Alexander, on the Logan plot-letters, 242
Wilky, Alexander, surety for John Wilky not to harm tailor Lyn, 73, 74
Wilky, John, his pursuit of tailor Lyn for revealing Robert Oliphant's
confidences respecting the Gowrie plot, 73, 74
Willoughby, Lord, kidnaps Ashfield, 139; his opinion of Logan of
Restalrig, 159; builds a ship for protection of English commerce, 218;
offers the venture to Cecil if subsidised by government, 218, 219; admits
Logan to the venture, 218, 219; dies suddenly on board his ship, 219
Wilson (Erskine's servant), at the slaughter of the Ruthvens, 27, 30, 31,
85
* * * * *
YOUNGER, suspected as the man in the turret, 62
* * * * *
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Footnotes:
{0a} Longmans, Green, & Co., 1871.
{7} See _The Mystery of Mary Stuart_. Longmans, 1901.
{12a} Extracted from the Treasurer's Accounts, July, August, 1600. MS.
{12b} The King's Narrative, Pitcairn's _Criminal Trials of Scotland_,
ii. 210.
{13} The King's Narrative, _ut supra_. Treasurer's Accounts, MS.
{14} Lennox in Pitcairn, ii. 171-174.
{18} The description is taken from diagrams in Pitcairn, derived from a
local volume of Antiquarian Proceedings. See, too, _The Muses'
Threnodie_, by H. Adamson, 1638, with notes by James Cant (Perth, 1774),
pp. 163, 164.
{19} Pitcairn, ii. 199.