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Title: James VI and the Gowrie mystery
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Subjects: Gowrie Conspiracy, 1600 Great Britain -- History James I, 1603-1625
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ology couldglide into Presbyterian cant, but we know that heindifferently lent the shelter of his fastness to theProtestant firebrand, wild Frank Stewart, Earl ofBothwell (who, like Carey writing from Berwick toCecil, reckons Logan among Catholics), or to GeorgeKer, the Catholic intriguer with Spain. Logan loved aplot for its own sake, as well as for chances of bootyand promotion. He was a hard drinker, and associateof rough yeomen and lairds like Ninian Chirnside ofWhitsumlaws (Bothwells emissary to the wizard,Eichard Graham), yet a man of ancient family andhigh connections. He seems to have been intimatewith the family of Sir John Cranstoun of Cranstoun.On one occasion he informs Archibald Douglas, thedetested and infamous murderer and deeply dyedtraitor, that John of Cranstoun is the one mannow that bears you best good will. (January1587?) In January 1600, the year of the Gowrie plot, wefind Sir John Cranstoun in trouble for harbouringan outlawed Mr. Thomas Cranstoun, who was, with
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LOGAN OF EESTALRIG 155 Douglas, the Laird of Spot, one of Bothwells alliesin all his most desperate raids on the person of KingJames. In 1592, Mr. Thomas Cranstoun was for-feited, he was informed against for new conspiraciesagainst his Majestys life and estate, and, in January1600, Sir John Cranstoun was sheltering this dan-gerous and desperate Bothwellian outlaw, as was hisson-in law, Mr. William Cranstoun.1 Now the Mr. Thomas Cranstoun who was hangedfor his part in the Gowrie affair, was brother of SirJohn Cranstoun of Cranstoun, the ally of that otherMr. Thomas Cranstoun who was so deep in Bothwellswild raids on the Kings person. In the spring of1600 (as we have said, but must here repeat)there were reports that Bothwell had secretlyreturned to Scotland, and, on April 20, 1600, justbefore the date of Gowries arrival in Edinburghfrom London, Nicholson reports suspected plots ofArchibald Douglas, of John Colville, a ruined Both-wellian, and a spy, and of the Laird of Spot.2 ThisColvi

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