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 rôle, [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.