Hume of Cowdenknowes (married to Gowrie’s sister Beatrix), [124]
Hume of Godscroft, on a message from the Earl of Angus to
Gowrie’s father in conspiracy, [121], [122]
Hume of Manderston, [187]
Hume of Rentoun, [196]
Hume, Sir George, of Spot, [64]
James VI of Scotland, married to Anne of Denmark, [2]; early life and character, [4]; his version of the Gowrie mystery, [6]; reasons for doubting his guilt, [7]; untrustworthiness of his word, [8]; substantial character of his tale, [9]; love of the chase, [11]; political troubles, [11]; hunting costume, [12]; concerning him, facts drawn from Lennox, [13] et seq.; starts for the hunt in Falkland Park, [13]; the Master of Ruthven interviews him before the hunt, [13]; goes to Gowrie’s house, [14]; observers’ accounts of the transactions implicating him, [20]–34; his dinner at Gowrie House, [20]; goes upstairs on a quiet errand, [20]; Cranstoun’s statement that the King had ridden away, [20]; search for him in the house, [21]; Gowrie confirms his departure, [22]; but—the King’s horse still in the stable, [22]; heard calling from the window, [23]; struggle with the Master of Ruthven, [24], [25], [26]; the man in the turret behind the King’s back, [25]; sanctions the stabbing of the Master of Ruthven by Ramsay, [26]; shut up in the turret, [29], [30]; kneels in prayer in the chamber bloody with the corpse of Gowrie, [32]; his own narrative of the affair, [35] et seq.; theory of the object of the Ruthvens, [37]; the Master of Ruthven’s statement to him of the cloaked man and the pot full of coined gold pieces, [39]; suspects the Jesuits of importing foreign gold for seditious purposes, [40]; his horror of ‘practising Papists,’ [40]; hypothesis of his intended kidnapping, [37], [42]; importance of the ride of the Master and Henderson to Falkland and its concealment to the substantiation of his narrative, [44], [45], [46]; asserts Henderson’s presence at Falkland, [46]; rides, followed by Mar and Lennox, after the kill to Perth, [47]; surmises regarding Ruthven, [47]; motives for the Master acquiring his favour regarding the Abbey of Scone, [48]; asks Lennox if he thinks the Master settled in his wits, [48]; pressed by the Master to come on and see the man and the treasure, [48]; met by Gowrie with sixty men, [49]; presses the Master for a sight of the treasure, [49]; the Master asks him to keep the treasure a secret from Gowrie, [49]; Gowrie’s uneasy behaviour while the King dines, [49], [50]; despatches Gowrie to the Hall with the grace-cup, and follows the Master alone to the turret to view the treasure, [50], [51]; the question of the doors he passed through to reach the turret chamber and their locking by the Master, [51], [52], [53], [54]; threatened by the Master with the dagger of a strange man in the turret chamber, [55]; denounced for the execution of the Master’s father, [56]; his harangue to the Master excusing his action, and promising forgiveness if released, [56]; Ruthven goes to consult Gowrie, leaving him in the custody of the man, [56]; questions the man about the conspiracy, [57]; orders the man to open the window, [58]; the Master returns and essays to bind his hands with a garter, [58]; struggles with the Master and shouts Treason from the window, [58]; rescued by Ramsay, who wounds
the Master, [59]; returns to Falkland, [59]; Henderson’s narrative of events, [60] et seq.; his interview with the Master and journey to Gowrie House, [65]; at dinner, [65]; Henderson’s account of the struggle in the turret chamber mainly in accord with the King’s narrative, [66]; discrepancy between his and Henderson’s accounts of the disarming of Ruthven, [69], [104]; causes Oliphant to be lodged in the Gate House, Westminster, [76]; subsequently releases him and restores his property, [76], [77]; maintains his to be the true account of the Gowrie affair and disregards discrepancies in evidence, [78]; on the way to Gowrie House had informed Lennox of Ruthven’s tale of the pot of gold, [94]; theory of his concoction of the tale, [95]; despatches Preston to Elizabeth with his version of the Gowrie affair, [96]; rates the Edinburgh preachers for refusing to thank God for his delivery from a ‘Gowrie plot,’ [101]; reasons for his ferocity towards the recalcitrant preachers, [102]; his alleged ‘causes’ for the death of Gowrie, [104]; Bruce states that he is convinced, on Mar’s oath chiefly, of his innocence, [106]; under interrogation by Bruce, [107], [108]; subsequent persecution of Bruce, [109]; objections taken by contemporary sceptics to his narrative, [111]–117; grounds for a hereditary feud between him and Gowrie, [118]; early years of his reign, [119]; the Raid of Ruthven, [119]; his acquiescence in the execution of Gowrie’s father, [123]; Arran’s influence over him, [119], [123]; suspected of favouring the Catholic earls of the North, [124]; Gowrie, Atholl and Bothwell in alliance against him, [125]; their manifesto to the Kirk, [125]; Gowrie’s relique at Padua forwarded to him by Sir Robert Douglas, [127]; early correspondence with Gowrie, [127]; his alleged jealousy of Gowrie, [130]; gives Gowrie a year’s respite from pursuit of his creditors, [131]; thwarted by Gowrie in his demands for money, [131]; romantic story of his discovery of the Queen’s ribbon on the Master’s neck, [132]; his letters inviting Atholl, the Master and Gowrie to Falkland, [134], [135], note; his motives for killing both the Ruthvens, [139], [140]; method attributed to him by his adversaries on which he might have carried out a plot against the Ruthvens, [142]; plots against him encouraged by the English Government, [161]; his life aimed at by witchcraft, [198]. See ‘The Verie Manner of the Erll of Gowrie,’ &c.
Jesuits, suspected by James of importing foreign coin for seditious purposes, [40]