[105b] Ibid. vi. 130.
[107a] Calderwood, vi. 147.
[107b] Ibid. vi. 156.
[110] Mr. Bruce appears to have gone to France in 1599–1600, to call Gowrie home. In a brief account of his own life, dictated by himself at about the age of seventy (1624), he says, ‘I was in France for the calling of the Master’ (he clearly means Earl) ‘of Gowrie’ (Wodrow’s ‘Life of the Rev. Robert Bruce,’ p. 10, 1843). Calderwood possessed, and Wodrow (circ. 1715) acquired, two ‘Meditations’ by Mr. Bruce of August 3, 4, 1600. Wodrow promises to print them, but does not, and when his book was edited in 1843, they could not be found. He says that ‘Mr. Bruce appears to have been prepared, in Providence,’ for his Gowrie troubles, judging (apparently) by these ‘Meditations.’ But Mr. Henry Paton has searched for and found the lost ‘Meditations’ in MS., which are mere spiritual outpourings. Wodrow’s meaning is therefore obscure. Mr. Bruce had great celebrity as a prophet, but where Wodrow found prophecy in the ‘Meditations’ of August 3, 4, 1600, is not apparent (Wodrow’s ‘Bruce,’ pp. 83, 84. Wodrow MSS., Advocates’ Library, vol. xliv. No. 35).
[111] Calderwood, vi. 49, 66–76.
[114] Pitcairn, ii. 196.
[118] Bain, Calendar, ii. 350; Nau, p. 59.
[121a] Form of certain Devices, &c. See Papers relating to William, Earl of Gowrie, London, 1867, pp. 25–29.
[121b] Form of examination and death of William, Earl of Gowrie. British Museum, Caligula, c. viii. fol. 23.
[126] Thorpe, Calendar, ii. 650