Burnet, Bishop, quoted, on Gowrie’s claims to a Royal pedigree, [249], [250]
Burton, Dr. Hill, on James VI, [5]; on Logan’s plot-letters, [169]
Calderwood, Rev. David (Presbyterian minister), on James’s narrative of the Gowrie affair, [36], [37]; on the man in the turret, [62]; rejects the story of Craigengelt’s dying confession,
[104]; view of the objections taken by sceptics to the King’s narrative, [111]; on Gowrie’s entry to Edinburgh, [130]; on the confession of Sprot on the scaffold, [163], [164] note, [227]; his interpretation of Sprot’s confession, [164]; on the Logan plot-letters, [170], [172], [173]
Cant, Mr. (antiquary), on Gowrie House, [18]
Carey, Sir John (Governor of Berwick), respecting a treatise in vindication of the Ruthvens, [81]; informs Cecil of James’s jealousy of Gowrie, [130]; and of the Court tattle respecting the Queen and Gowrie, [133]
Casket Letters, the, cited, [5], [7], [8]; in possession of Gowrie’s father, [240]; disappearance of, [241]; probability of forgery, [244]
Cecil Papers at Hatfield, the, [158]
Cecil, Sir Robert, Queen Elizabeth’s minister, [11]; communication from Nicholson respecting Cranstoun and Henderson, [75] note; letter from Carey respecting a treatise in vindication of the Ruthvens, [81]; intrigue with Bothwell, [147] note; with Border Scots intriguing against James, [159], [160]; Lord Willoughby’s offer of a ship if subsidised, [218]
Chirnside, Ninian, of Whitsumlaws, [154]; Logan’s letter to him, [174]; relations with Logan, [197], [199]; employed by Bothwell to arrange meetings with the wizard Graham, [198], [199]; in danger after the failure of the Gowrie plot, [203]; Sprot’s forged letter of Logan’s to be used by him for blackmailing Logan’s executors, [215]