James VI and the Gowrie Mystery Part 20

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; a.s.serts 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, 227231

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 ma.n.u.script 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 hors.e.m.e.n, 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, 8688; 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. 171174.

{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.

{23} The evidence of these witnesses is in Pitcairn, ii. 171191.

{28} Cranstoun's deposition in Pitcairn, ii. 156, 157. At Falkland August 6.

{30} The adversaries of the King say that these men ran up, and were wounded, _later_, in another encounter. As to this we have no evidence, but we have evidence of their issuing, wounded, from the dark staircase at the moment when Cranstoun fled thence.

{38} Quoted by Pitcairn, ii. 209. The Falkland letter, as we show later, was probably written by David Moysie, but must have been, more or less, 'official.' Cf. p. 100, _infra_.

{40} Many of these may be read in _Narratives of Scottish Catholics_, by Father Forbes-Leith, S.J.

{42} Carey to Cecil. Berwick, _Border Calendar_, vol. ii. p. 677, August 11, 1600.

{44a} Deposition of Craigengelt, a steward of Gowrie's, Falkland, August 16, 1600. Pitcairn, ii. 157.

{44b} Pitcairn, ii. p. 185.

{44c} Pitcairn, ii. p. 179.

{45} Barbe, p. 91.

{48a} State Papers, Scotland (Elizabeth), vol. lxvi. No. 50.