James VI and the Gowrie Mystery
by Andrew Lang
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1902 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David Price
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Gowrie Conspiracy, 1600
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 31033
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31033
- Release Date
- January 20, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.JAMES VI and THE GOWRIE MYSTERY
- 2.INTRODUCTION
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.I. THE MYSTERY AND THE EVIDENCE
- 6.II. THE SLAUGHTER OF THE RUTHVENS
- 7.III. THE KING’S OWN NARRATIVE
- 8.IV. THE KING’S NARRATIVE—II. THE MAN IN THE TURRET
- 9.V. HENDERSON’S NARRATIVE
- 10.VI. THE STRANGE CASE OF MR. ROBERT OLIPHANT
- 11.VII. THE CONTEMPORARY RUTHVEN VINDICATION
- 12.VIII. THE THEORY OF AN ACCIDENTAL BRAWL
- 13.IX. CONTEMPORARY CLERICAL CRITICISM
- 14.X. POPULAR CRITICISM OF THE DAY
- 15.XI. THE KING AND THE RUTHVENS
- 16.XII. LOGAN OF RESTALRIG
- 17.XIII. THE SECRETS OF SPROT
- 18.XIV. THE LAIRD AND THE NOTARY
- 19.XV. THE FINAL CONFESSIONS OF THE NOTARY
- 20.XVI. WHAT IS LETTER IV?
- 21.XVII. INFERENCES AS TO THE CASKET LETTERS
- 22.APPENDICES — APPENDIX A. THE FRONTISPIECE — APPENDIX B: THE CONTEMPORARY RUTHVEN VINDICATION — APPENDIX C. FIVE LETTERS FORGED BY SPROT, AS FROM LOGAN
- 23.INDEX
- 24.Footnotes:
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