Bisset, Mr., quoted, on the notary Robertson’s evidence respecting Henderson, [61] note
Bothwell, Francis Stewart Earl of, aided by Gowrie’s mother and sister captures James at Holyrood, [124], [125]; manifesto to the Kirk, [125]; his list of Scottish Catholic nobles ready for the invasion of Scotland, [128]; other proposals of invasion, [129]; vague hints at his aim to change the dynasty, [140]; his whereabouts in 1600, [147] note; on terms with Logan of Restalrig, [154], [155], [156]; charged with practising witchcraft against the King’s life, [198]; report as to a secret candidate for James’s crown, [251]
Bothwell, James Hepburn Earl of, his proposal to Arran to seize Mary, cited, [71]
Bower, James (a retainer of Logan’s), custodian of compromising letters between Logan and Gowrie, [164], [174], [176], [177], [195]; bearer of Gowrie’s letter to Logan, [183], [188], [191]; letter from Logan, [183], [184]; Sprot’s account of Logan and Bower’s scheme to get possession of Dirleton, [189]; with Logan at Coldinghame after the tragedy, [195]; custodian of Ruthven’s and Clerk’s letters to Logan, [202]; blamed for the selling of Fastcastle, [204]; letter from Logan reproaching him for indiscretions of speech, [211], [212]
Bower, Valentine, employed by his father James to read Logan’s letters, [213]
Bowes, Sir William (English Ambassador), no friend of James’s, [96]; his hypothesis respecting the Gowrie tragedy, [96]; letter to Sir John Stanhope on same matter, [97] note
Brown, Professor Hume, on the Logan plot-letters, [241]
Brown, Robert (James’s servant), part in the Gowrie mystery, [31]
Bruce, Rev. Robert (Presbyterian minister), his cross-examination of James on the Gowrie tragedy, [38]; allows that James was not a conspirator, [95]; explains to James the reasons for the preachers’ refusal to thank God for his delivery from a ‘plot,’ [101]; sceptical of the veracity of James’s narrative, [102], [103]; will believe it if Henderson is hanged, [103], [104], [106], [226]; goes into banishment, [105]; tells Mar in London he is content to abide by the verdict in the Gowrie case, but is not persuaded of Gowrie’s guilt, [105]; meets the King in Scotland, and tells him he is convinced, on Mar’s oath, that he is innocent, [106]; interrogates the King, [107]; refuses to make a public apology in the pulpit and is banished to Inverness, [108], [250]; his ‘Meditations,’ [110] note; asks Lord Hamilton to head the party of the Kirk, [177]; prophecies, [249]
Burnet (Burnet’s father), on the Gowrie mystery, [249], [250]