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Letter I (Logan to-), 167, 174, 185, 188, 189, 196, 200, 216, 217, 223, 224, 225, 226, 228, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, 257, 258
Letter II (Logan to Bower), 183, 184, 185, 188, 189, 195, 205, 208, 224, 228, 229, 239, 258, 259
Letter III (Logan to-), 200, 216, 217, 223, 224, 228, 232, 233, 234, 235, 239, 259, 260
Letter IV (Logan to Gowrie), cited, 166, 167, 170, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 181, 182, 186, 187, 190, 191, 192, 194, 195, 196, 197, 199, 202, 206, 207, 215, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 260263
Letter V (Logan to-), 200, 215, 216, 217, 223, 224, 228, 232, 233, 234, 235, 263, 264
Lindores, at the slaughter of the Ruthvens, 19, 20, 21
Lindsay, James, at Padua with Gowrie, 126, 248
Lindsay, Lord, surety for Lord Robert Stewart, 153
Lindsay, Rev. David, sent to tell James's story of his escape from the Gowrie plot at the Cross, Edinburgh, 101
Lindsay, Sir Harry, Laird of Kinfauns, Sprot withdraws his charge against him, 217
Locke, Henry (Cecil's go-between and agent in conspiracy against James), 160
Logan, Matthew, 187, 189, 193, 203; bearer of letters from Logan to Bower, 211, 212, 213; account of Bower's reception of them, 213; denies every word attributed to him by Sprot, 213, 220
Logan, Sir Robert (father of Logan of Restalrig), 150, 205, 206
Logan of Restalrig, his name on Bothwell's list of Catholic n.o.bles, 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 s.h.i.+p 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
Man, the, in the turret, 35, 55, 56, 57, 62, 72
Mar, Earl of, at the King's hunt at Falkland, 12, 47; with James at Gowrie House, 23, 24, 26, 32; at the Gowrie slaughter, 86, 88; a.s.sures the preacher Bruce of the truth of the King's narrative, 104, 105; is told by Bruce that he will accept the verdict in the Gowrie case but not preach Gowrie's guilt, 105; entrusted by James with the care of Prince Henry, 138; the Queen's plots against him, 138
Mary of Guise (James's grandmother), 118
Mary Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters, 5, 7, 8; declares that Ruthven (Gowrie's grandfather) persecuted her by his l.u.s.t, 119
Mason, Peter, 190
Ma.s.son, Dr., on the Gowrie mystery, 5
Matthew, Toby (Dean of Durham), Bothwell's statement to him, 251
Maul, one of Sprot's victims, 203
Maxwell, Lord, cited, 193
Melville, Sir Robert, his treachery in procuring the conviction of Gowrie's father, 120122
Moncrieff, Hew, present at the slaughter of the Ruthvens, 29, 32; at the fight in the death chamber, 60; proclaimed, 63; puzzled regarding the Master's early ride from Perth to Falkland, 137
Moncrieff, John, questions Henderson as to the ride to Falkland, 44, 145; on Gowrie's silence as to his knowledge of the King's approach, 45; on Gowrie's actions on the morning of the fatal 5th, 137
Montrose (Chancellor), 64; desires the preachers to thank G.o.d in their churches for the King's 'miraculous delivery,' 100
Montrose, the Master of, conspiring against James, 125
Moray, Earl, his alleged relations with Queen Anne, 2
Morton, Regent, confines Lord Robert Stewart in Linlithgow Castle, 153
Mossman, imprisoned for share in the Gowrie plot, 203
Mowbray, Francis, intriguing with Cecil against James, 159; imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and killed in trying to escape therefrom, 160
Mowbray, Philip, of Barnbogle, surety for Lord Robert Stewart, 153; intriguing with Cecil against James, 159
Moysie, David, probable writer of the Falkland letter, after the slaughter of the Ruthvens, 38 note; 100
Murray, George, in attendance on James, 12
Murray, John of Arbany, in attendance on James, 12; with James at the slaughter of the Ruthvens, 24, 25, 26, 32, 61; wounded by a Ruthven partisan, 88
Murray, Sir David, on Gowrie's speech against James's demands for money, 131
Murray of Tullibardine, in Perth at the time of the Gowrie tragedy, 28
NAISMITH (surgeon), with James at the Falkland hunt, 47
Napier, Mr. Mark, on Sprot's alleged forgery of the Logan letters, 172, 173, 222; denies that any compromising letters were found, 178
Napier of Merchistoun, his contract as to gold-finding with Logan of Restalrig, 171