James VI and the Gowrie Mystery

by Andrew Lang

[127a] De Natione Anglica et Scota Juristarum Universitatis Patavinae Io. Aloys. Andrich. Patavii, 1892, pp. 172, 173.

[127b] Ottavio Baldi to the King, June 22, 1609. Record Office. Venice, No. 14, 1608–1610. See infra, Appendix A, ‘Gowrie’s Arms and Ambitions.’

[128a] Gowrie’s letters of 1595 are in Pitcairn.

[128b] State Papers, Scotland (Elizabeth), vol. lxiii. No. 85.

G. Nicolson to Sir Robert Cecil.

Edinborough, 25 December, 1598.

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‘I heare Gowry is become a papist. But the K. takes little care to this, And yet sure it importes him most to se to it, vnlest he accompt otherwais of it than he hath cause, except he haue other pollicy than I will conjecture.’ Compare Galloway’s sermon, in Pitcairn, ii. 249, and A Short Discourse, ii. 231, 232.

[129a] Simancas, iv. pp. 653, 654, 677, 680, 715.

[129b] Compare note, p. 110, supra.

[130a] Winwood Memorials, pp. 1, 156. Hudson to Cecil. State Papers, Scotland (Elizabeth), vol. lxvi. No. 19.

[130b] Border Calendar, vol. ii. May 29, 1600. Carey to Cecil.

[131a] The whole proceedings are printed in Arnot’s Criminal Trials.