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in the room, heard them moving, and thought that they were ‘going to make breeks for Maconilduy,’ that is, to catch the Highlander. Finding he was wrong, he threw his steel gauntlet into the pantry, and sent his boy to his house with his steel cap. He then followed Gowrie to meet the King, and, after he had fetched ‘a drink’ (which James says ‘was long in coming’), the Master bade him ask Mr. Rhynd, Gowrie’s old tutor, for the key of the gallery, which Rhynd brought to the Master. Gowrie then went up, and spoke with the Master, and, after some coming and going, Henderson was sent to the Master in the gallery. Thither Gowrie returned, and bade Henderson do whatever the Master commanded. (The King says that Gowrie came and went from the room, during his dinner.) The Master next bade Henderson enter the turret, and locked him in. He passed the time in terror and in prayer.

      There follows the story of the entry of James and the Master, and Henderson now avers that he ‘threw’ the dagger out of the Master’s hand. He declares that the Master said that he wanted ‘a promise from the King,’ on what point Gowrie would explain. The rest is much as in the King’s account, but Henderson was ‘pressing to have opened the window,’ he says, when the Master entered for the second time, with the garter to bind the King’s hands. During the struggle Henderson removed the Master’s hand from the King’s mouth, and opened the window. The Master said to him, ‘Wilt thou not help? Woe betide thee, thou wilt make us all die.’ 31

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      1

      Longmans, Green, & Co., 1871.

      2

      See The Mystery of Mary Stuart. Longmans, 1901.

      3

      Extracted from the Treasurer’s Accounts, July, August, 1600. MS.

      4

      The King’s Narrative, Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials of Scotland, ii. 210.

      5

      The King’s Narrative, ut supra. Treasurer’s Accounts, MS.

      6

      Lennox in Pitcairn, ii. 171–174.

      7

      The description is taken from diagrams in Pitcairn, derived from a local volume of Antiquarian Proceedings. See, too, The Muses’ Threnodie, by H. Adamson, 1638, with notes by James Cant (Perth, 1774), pp. 163, 164.

      8

      Pitcairn, ii. 199.

      9

      The evidence of these witnesses is in Pitcairn, ii. 171–191.

      10

      Cranstoun’s deposition in Pitcairn, ii. 156, 157. At Falkland August 6.

      11

      The adversaries of the King say that these men ran up, and were wounded,

1

Longmans, Green, & Co., 1871.

2

See The Mystery of Mary Stuart. Longmans, 1901.

3

Extracted from the Treasurer’s Accounts, July, August, 1600. MS.

4

The King’s Narrative, Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials of Scotland, ii. 210.

5

The King’s Narrative, ut supra. Treasurer’s Accounts, MS.

6

Lennox in Pitcairn, ii. 171–174.

7

The description is taken from diagrams in Pitcairn, derived from a local volume of Antiquarian Proceedings. See, too, The Muses’ Threnodie, by H. Adamson, 1638, with notes by James Cant (Perth, 1774), pp. 163, 164.

8

Pitcairn, ii. 199.

9

The evidence of these witnesses is in Pitcairn, ii. 171–191.

10

Cranstoun’s deposition in Pitcairn, ii. 156, 157. At Falkland August 6.

11

The adversaries of the King say that these men ran up, and were wounded, later, in another encounter. As to this we have no evidence, but we have evidence of their issuing, wounded, from the dark staircase at the moment when Cranstoun fled thence.

12

Quoted by Pitcairn, ii. 209. The Falkland letter, as we show later, was probably written by David Moysie, but must have been, more or less, ‘official.’ Cf. p. 100, infra.

13

Many of these may be read in Narratives of Scottish Catholics, by Father Forbes-Leith, S.J.

14

Carey to Cecil. Berwick, Border Calendar, vol. ii. p. 677, August 11, 1600.

15

Deposition of Craigengelt, a steward of Gowrie’s, Falkland, August 16, 1600. Pitcairn, ii. 157.

16

Pitcairn, ii. p. 185.

17

Pitcairn, ii. p. 179.

18

Barbé, p. 91.

19

State Papers, Scotland (Elizabeth), vol. lxvi. No. 50.

20

Mr. S. R. Gardiner alone remarks on this point, in a note to the first edition of his great History. See note to p. 54, infra.

21

Apparently not Sir Thomas Hamilton, the King’s Advocate.

22

State Papers, Scotland (Elizabeth), vol. lxvi. No. 51.

23

Pitcairn, vol. ii. p. 249.

24

Mr. Scott suggested that a piece of string was found by Balgonie. The words of Balgonie are ‘ane gartane’ – a garter. He never mentions string.

25

Pitcairn, ii. 197.

26

The Tragedy of Gowrie House, by Louis Barbé, 1887, p. 91.

27

Mr.

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Pitcairn, ii. 222, 223.


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