Logan, Sir Robert (father of Logan of Restalrig), [150], [205], [206]
Logan of Restalrig, his name on Bothwell’s list of Catholic nobles, [129]; surety for Lord Robert Stewart, [153]; marries Elizabeth Macgill, and is divorced from her, [153]; on terms both with Protestant and Catholic conspirators, [154], [155], [156]; diplomatic ambitions, [156]; on the packed jury which acquits Archibald Douglas, [157]; relations with the Master of Gray, [157]; a partisan, with Gowrie’s father, of Bothwell, [157]; helps himself to the plate-chest of Nesbit of Newton, [158]; bound over not to put Fastcastle in the hands of the King’s enemies, [158]; his character from Lord Willoughby, [159]; intimacy with the Mowbrays, [160]; sells all his landed property at the time of the Gowrie plot, [161], [205]; erratic behaviour previous to his death, [161]; death, [161], [162]; compromising papers from him found on his notary Sprot, [162]; under torture Sprot confesses these papers to be his own forgeries, [162]; on examination before the Privy Council Sprot persists in Logan’s complicity in the Gowrie plot, [163], [170]; his exhumed remains brought into court and tried for treason, [164]; compromising letters, [164], [165]; his family forfeited, [165]; production of alleged plot-letters at his posthumous trial, [168], [175]; contents
of Letter IV to Gowrie, [176]; use made of the letters by the Government, [179], [181]; letters from and to Gowrie, [183]; letter to Bower, [183], [184], [185]; conduct immediately before and after Gowrie’s death, [187]; his scheme to get possession of Dirleton, [189]; his keep Fastcastle, where it is said James was to have been carried, [193]; charge of conspiracy to murder James made in the Indictment in his posthumous trial, [193]; faint evidence that he was connected with the Gowrie plot, [194]; with Bower at Coldinghame on the failure of the plot, [195]; memorandum to Bower and Bell, [195]; singular behaviour in trusting his letters to Bower, [202]; burns Ruthven’s and Clerk’s letters, [202]; letter to Baillie of Littlegill, [202]; events at his Yule at Gunnisgreen, [203]; takes Sprot into his confidence, [204]; discourages the idea of bringing Lord Home into the plot, [207], [208]; conversation with Lady Home about Dirleton, [208]; his visit to London, [210]; letter to Bower, and Sprot’s answer, [211]; fears the effect of Bower’s rash speeches, [212]; forged letters attributed to him, [215], [216], [217]; partner in a ship with Lord Willoughby, [218]; his letter to Gowrie the model for Sprot’s forgeries, [177], [221]; motives for his sale of his lands, [228]
Logan, Robert (son of Logan of Restalrig and Elizabeth Macgill), [153]
Lords of the Articles, the, the Gowrie case before, [8]; the Logan trial before, [165]
Lumisden, Rev. Mr., present when Sprot confessed to forgery of letters, [186]; at the examination of Sprot, [226]
Lyn, tailor, Mr. Robert Oliphant’s confidences to him about the Gowrie plot, [73], [75]
Macbreck, witness of the attack on Gowrie, [29]
Macgill, Elizabeth, married to Logan of Restalrig, and divorced from him, [153]
Maitland of Lethington, [152]