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<P>Govvreis Con&s;piracie A DISCOVRSE OF THE VNNA+TVRALL AND VYLE <HI>CONSPI|RACIE ATTEMPTED</HI> A|GAINST THE KINGS MA|IESTIES PERSON <HI>AT</HI> SANCT-IOHNSTOVN vpon Twy&s;day the 5. of Augu&s;t. 1600.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A DISCOVRE</HI> OF THE VNNATVRALL AND vyle con&s;piracie attempted again&s;t his <HI>Maie&s;ties per&s;on at Sanct Iohn&s;toun vpon the 5. day of Augu&s;t being Tuy&s;day,</HI> 1600.</HEAD>
<P>HIS Maie&s;tie having his re&s;idence at Falkland, and being daily at the Buck-hunting, as his v&s;e is in that &s;ea&s;on, vpon the fifth day of Augu&s;t, being Twy&s;day, hee raid out to the Park, betwixt &s;ix and &s;euen hours in the morning, the weather being wonder|full plea&s;ant and &s;ea&s;onable. But before his Maie&s;tie could leap on hor&s;e-back, his Hie|nes being now come downe by the Equerie: All the hunti&s;-men with the houndes atten|ding his Maie&s;ty on the greene, &amp; the Court making to their hor&s;es, as his hienes &s;elf was: Mai&s;ter Alexander Ruthven, &s;econd brother to the late Earle of Gowrie being then ligh|ted
<PB REF="7"> in the toun of Falkland, hai&s;ted him fa&s;t downe to ouer take his Maie&s;tie before his on-leaping, as he did. Where meeting his Hienes, after a verie low courte&s;ie, bowing his head vnder his Maie&s;ties knee, (althogh he was neuer wont to make &s;o low courte&s;y) drawing his Maie&s;tie a-part, he beginnes to di&s;cour&s;e vnto him, but with a verie deiected countenance, his eies euer fixed vppon the earth, how that it chanced him the euening befor to be walking abroad about the fields taking the air, &s;olitarie allone, without the tou~ of Sanct Iohn&s;tou~, wher his pre&s;e~t dwel|ling was with the Lord his brother, &amp; there by accident affirmed to haue recountred a ba&s;e like fellow, vnknowne to him, with a cloke ca&s;t about his mouth: whome at as he enquyred his name, and what his erand was to be pa&s;&s;ing in &s;o &s;olitary a part being from all waies: The fellow become at the &s;uddain &s;o ama&s;ed, and his tongue &s;o faultered in his mouth that vppon his &s;u&s;pitious bohauiour he begouth more narrowly to look vnto him and examine him: &amp; perceauing that there
<PB REF="7"> appeared &s;omething to bee hid vnder h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cloke, he did ca&s;t by the lappes of it, and &s;o findes a great wyde pot to be vnder his arme all full of coyned gold in great peeces. A&s;&s;u|ring his Maie&s;tie that it was in verie great quantitie: vpon the &s;ight whereof as hee af|firmed, he took back the fellow with his bur|then to the toun, where he priuatly without the knowledge of any liuing took the fellow and band him in a privie derned hou&s;e: and after lokking many durres vppon him, left him there and his pot with him and had hai|&s;ted him &s;elf out of Sanct-Iohn&s;ton that day <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y four houres in the morning, to make his Maie&s;tie aduerti&s;ed therof, according to his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ound dutie. Earne&s;tlie repue&s;ting his Ma|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;tie with all diligence and &s;ecrecie that his Maie&s;tie might take order therewith, before anie know thereof. Swearing &amp; prote&s;ting <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat he had yet concealed it from all liuing: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ea, from the Earle his owne brother. His Maie&s;ties fir&s;t an&s;were was (after thanking <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">im for his good-will) that it could not be|come his Maie&s;tie to meddle anie wayes in
<PB REF="8"> that matter, &s;ince no mans trea&s;ure that is free and lawfull &s;ubiect can by the Lawe a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pertaine vnto the king, except it bee fou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hid vnder the earth, as this was not: Whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> unto he an&s;wered, that the fellow confe&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vnto him, that hee was going to haue hid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vnder the ground, but could not take lea&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> at that time to enquyre any further of hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Whereunto his Maie&s;tie replyed that the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> was great difference betwixt a deed, and t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> intention of a deed: his intention to haue h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> it, not beeing alyke as if it had beene fou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> alreadie hid. Mai&s;ter Alxanders an&s;wer w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that hee thought his Maie&s;tie ouer &s;crup<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+lous in &s;uch a matter te~ding &s;o greatly to h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Maie&s;ties profite: and that if his Maie&s;ty d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ferred to meddle with it, that it might b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that the Lord his brother and vther gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> men might meddle with it, and make his M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ie&s;tie the more a-doe. Wherupon the ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> beginning to &s;u&s;pect that it had beene &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> forraine gold brought home by &s;ome Ie&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+tes or practi&s;ing Papi&s;ts (therewith to &s;tur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vp &s;ome newe &s;edition as they haue oft<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+tymes
<PB REF="8"> done before) enquyred of the &s;aid M. Alexander, what kinde of coine it was, and what a fellowe hee was that carried it. His an&s;were was, that &s;o far as hee could take lei|&s;ure to &s;ee of them, that they &s;eemed to bee forraine and vncouth &s;trokes of coine, &amp; al|thogh that the fellow both by his language and fa&s;hions &s;eemed to bee a Scots fellow, yet hee could neuer remember that hee had &s;eene him before. The&s;e &s;peaches increa&s;ed his Maie&s;ties &s;u&s;pition that it was forraine coyne brought in by &s;ome practi&s;ing Pa|pi&s;ts, and to bee di&s;tributed into the coun|trie, as is before &s;aid. And that the fellowe that caried it, was &s;ome Scots Prie&s;t, or Semi+narie &s;o di&s;aguy&s;ed, for the more &s;ure tran&s;|porting thereof. Whereupon his Maie&s;tie re&s;olued, that he would &s;end backe with the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander a &s;eruand of his own with an warrand to the Prouo&s;t and Baillies of Sanct-Iohn&s;toun, to receaue both the fel|low and the money off Mai&s;ter Alexanders <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">and, and after they had examined the fel|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ow, to re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aine him and the trea&s;ure, till his
<PB REF="9"> Maie&s;ties further plea&s;ure were knowne Whereat the &s;aid Mai&s;tet Alexander &s;tur+red meruelou&s;lie: affirming and prote&s;tin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that if either the Lord his brother, or th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Baillies of the toun were put on the coun&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> thereof: his Maie&s;tie would get a verie ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> compt made to him of that trea&s;ure, &s;wea+ring that the great loue &amp; affection he bar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vnto his Maie&s;tie had made him to preferr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Maie&s;tie in this cace, both to him&s;elf, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his brother. For the which &s;eruice he humb+lie craued that recompence that his Maie&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> would take the paines once to ryde thither that he might bee the fir&s;t &s;eear thereof him &s;elf: which beeing done, he woulde remit to his Maie&s;ties owne honorable di&s;cretion how far it would plea&s;e his Maie&s;tie to con+&s;ider vpon him for that &s;eruice. His Hienes beeing &s;triken in great admiration both of the vncouthnes of the tale, &amp; of the &s;trange and &s;tupide behauiour of the reporter: and the Court being alreadie hor&s;ed, wondring at his Maie&s;ties &s;o long &s;tay with that gen|tleman, the morning being &s;o fair, the game
<PB REF="9"> alreadie found, and the Hunti&s;men &s;o lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;taying on the fields on his Maie&s;tie: he was forced to break off, onlie with the&s;e wordes, that hee coulde not nowe &s;taye anie longer from his &s;port, but that hee would con&s;idder of the matter, &amp; at the end of his cha&s;e giue him a re&s;olute an&s;were, what order he would take therein. Wherupon his Maie&s;ty parted in ha&s;te from him towardes the place where the game was. Mai&s;ter Alexander parting from his Maie&s;tie verie mi&s;content, that in|delaiedlie he raid not to Sanct-Iohn&s;toun as he de&s;ired him: Prote&s;ting that his Maie&s;tie would not finde euerie day &s;uch a choi&s;e of hunting, as he had offered vnto him and that hee feared that his Maie&s;ties long delay and &s;lownes of re&s;olution, would breed lea&s;ure to the fellow who was lying bound, to cry or make &s;uch din, as would di&s;appoint the &s;ecrecy of that whole purpo&s;e, &amp; make both the fellow &amp; the trea&s;ure to be medled with, before any word could come from his Maie|&s;tie: as al&s;o that his brother would mi&s;&s;e him in re&s;pect of his ab&s;e~ce that morning, which
<PB REF="10"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Maie&s;tie had plea&s;ed to ha&s;te, he might haue preuented: arryuing there in the tyme of his brothers and the whole townes being at the &s;ermon: whereby his Maie&s;tie might haue taken &s;uch &s;ecrete order with that mat|ter, as hee plea&s;ed before their outcomming from the Church. But his Maie&s;tie without anie further an&s;wering of him, leaping on hor&s;e-back, and ryding to the Dogs, where they were beginning to hunt. The &s;aid Mai|&s;ter Alexander &s;tayed &s;till in that place wher hee left his Maie&s;tie, and hauing two men with him appointed by the late Earle his bro+ther, to carrie back vnto him the certaine newes in al hai&s;t of his Maie&s;ties comming, as heerafter more particularlie &s;hall in this &s;ame di&s;cour&s;e be declared. Hee directed the one of them called Andrew Hender&s;on, Chalmerlane to the &s;aid Earle, to ryde in all ha&s;te to the Earle, commanding him as hee loued his brothers honour, that hee &s;houlde not &s;pare for &s;pilling of his hor&s;e, and tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> he &s;hould aduerti&s;e the Earle that he hoped to moue his Maie&s;tie to come thither, and that
<PB REF="10"> he &s;hould not yet looke for him the &s;pac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> three houres thereafter, becau&s;e of his Ma|ie&s;ties hunting: adding the&s;e words: Pray my Lord my brother to prepare the denner for vs. But his Maie&s;tie was no &s;ooner ridden vp to a little hil aboue the little woode, wher the Dogs were laid on in hunting: but that notwith&s;tanding the plea&s;ant beginning of the cha&s;e, hee could not &s;tay from mu&s;ing &amp; wondering vpon the newes. Whereupon, without making anie bodie acquainted with this purpo&s;e, finding Iohn Ne&s;mith Chirur|gian by chance ryding be&s;ide him, his Maie|&s;tie directed him back to bring Mai&s;ter Ale|xander with him: who being brought vnto his Maie&s;tie, and hauing newlie directed as &s;aid is, one of his men that was with him back to my Lord his brother, his Maie&s;tie vn+knowing or &s;u&s;pecting that any man liuing had come with him, then tolde him that he had bene aduy&s;ing with him&s;elf, &amp; in re&s;pect of his la&s;t wordes &s;o earne&s;t with him, he re|&s;olued to ryde thither for that erand in his own per&s;on how &s;oone the cha&s;e was ended,
<PB REF="11"> which was alreadie begun: like as his Maie+&s;ty vpon the verie ending of the&s;e words, did ryde away in the cha&s;e, the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Ale|xander euer following him at his back: no o|ther liuing being with his Hiene&s;&s;e, but hee, and Iohn Hammilton of Grange, one of his Maie&s;tirs Mai&s;ter-&s;tablers, the re&s;te of the Court being all before in the cha&s;e, his Ma|ie&s;tie onlie being ca&s;ten back vpon the &s;tay|ing to &s;peak with Mai&s;ter Alexander, as is be fore&s;aid. The cha&s;e la&s;ted from &s;euen hours in the morning vntill alleuen and more, be|ing one of the greate&s;t and &s;ore&s;t cha&s;es that euer his Maie&s;tie was at: all which tyme the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexa~der was for the mo&s;t part euer at his Maie&s;ties back as &s;aid is. But there neuer was any &s;top in the cha&s;e, or &s;o &s;mall a delay, that the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander o+mitted to round to his Maie&s;tie, earne&s;tly re|que&s;ting him to hai&s;t the end of the hunting that he might ryde the &s;ooner to Sanct-Iohn &s;toun. So as at the death of the Buck, his Maie&s;tie not &s;taying vppon the curie of the Deir, as his v&s;e is, &s;carcelie took time to a&punc;
<PB REF="11"> light, awaiting vpon the comming of a fre&s;h hor&s;e to ryde on, the greatne&s;&s;e of the cha&s;e hauing weried his hor&s;e. But the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander would not &s;uffer the King to &s;tay in the Parke where the Buck was killed, whil his fre&s;h hors which was alredy &s;ent for, was brought out of the Equery to him, although it was not two flight &s;hot of bounds betwixt the part where the buck was killed, and his Maie&s;ties Equerie: but with verie importu|nitie forced his Maie&s;tie to leap on againe v|pon that &s;ame hor&s;e, that hee had hunted all the day vpon, his fre&s;h hor&s;e beeing made to gallop a myle of the way to ouertake him: his Maie&s;tie not &s;taying &s;o much as vppon his &s;word, nor whil the Duke and the Erle of Mar, with diuer&s;e gentlemen in his compa|nie had changed their hor&s;e. Onlie &s;aying vnto them that hee was to ryde to Sanct-Iohn&s;tou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to &s;peak with the Earle of Gowry, and that he would bee pre&s;ently back againe before euen. Whereupon &s;ome of the court galloped backe to Falkland als fa&s;t as they coulde to change their hor&s;e, and could not
<PB REF="12"> ouertake his Maie&s;tie whill he come withi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> four myle of Sanct-Iohn&s;toun. Others rai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fordward with their hor&s;es weried as the were, wherof &s;ome were compelled to aligh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by the way, &amp; if they had not both refre&s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> their hor&s;es, bled them, and giuen them &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> gra&s;&s;e by the way, they had not carried then to Sanct-Iohn&s;toun. The cau&s;e of his Maie+&s;ties &s;eruands following &s;o fa&s;t, vnde&s;ired b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> him, being onlie grounded vpon a &s;u&s;pitio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> they had conceaued that his Maie&s;ties in tention of ryding, was for the apprehen&s;ion of the Mai&s;ter of Oliphant, one who had lat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+lie done a vyle and proud oppre&s;&s;ion in An|gus. For repairing of the which, they thogh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that his Maie&s;tie had &s;ome purpo&s;e for his apprehen&s;ion. But the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexan|der &s;eing the Duke and the Erle of Mar with diuers other of the court getting fre&s;h hor&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for following of his Maie&s;tie, earne&s;tlie de&s;i|red him that he would publi&s;h to his whole traine, that &s;ince he was to returne the &s;ame euening, as is before &s;aid, they needed not to follow him, e&s;peciallie that he thought i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="12"> meete&s;t that his Maie&s;tie &s;houlde &s;tay the Duke and the Earle of Mar to follow him, &amp; that he &s;hould onlie take three or four of his owne meane &s;eruands with him, affirming that if anie noble man followed him, hee could not an&s;were for it, but that they would marre that whole purpo&s;e. Whereupon his Maie&s;tie, half angerlie, replyed that he wold not mi&s;tru&s;t the Duke nor the Earle of Mar in a greater purpo&s;e nor that, and that hee could not vnder&s;tand what hinder anie man could make in that erand. But the&s;e la&s;t &s;pee|ches of M. Alexanders maid the King to be|gin to &s;u&s;pect what it could meane: wherevp|pon manie diuer&s;e thoughts begouth to en|ter in the Kings minde. But that his Maie&s;tie could neuer &s;u&s;pect anie harme to be inten|ded again&s;t his Hienes by that young gentle man, with whome his Maie&s;tie had bene &s;o well acquainted&punc; as hee had not long before beene in &s;ute to be one of the Gentlemen of his Chalmer: &s;o as the farthe&s;t that the Kings &s;u&s;pition could reache to, was that it might bee that the Earle his brother had handled
<PB REF="13"> him &s;o hardlie, that the young gentlem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> being of a hie &s;pirit, had taken &s;uch di&s;ple<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;ure, as he was become &s;omwhat by him&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> which his Maie&s;tie coniectured a&s;well b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his rai&s;ed and vncouth &s;tairing and contin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> all pen&s;iuene&s;&s;e all the time of the huntin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> as likewi&s;e, by &s;uch &s;trange &s;ort of vnlykel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;cour&s;es, as is alreadie mentioned. Whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> upon his Maie&s;ty took occa&s;ion to make th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Duke of Lennox acquainted with the wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> purpo&s;e, enquyring of him verie earne&s;tl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> what he knew of that young gentlemans n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ture, beeing his brother in law, and if he ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> euer perceiued him to be &s;ubiect to any hig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> apprehen&s;ion, his maie&s;tie declaring his &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+pition plainelie to the &s;aid Lord Duke, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hee thought him not well &s;etled in his wit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> alwaies de&s;iring my Lord Duke not to fai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to accompanie him in to that hou&s;e, whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the alledged fellowe and trea&s;ure was. Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lord Duke woundred much at that purpo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and thought it verie vnliklie: yet he affirme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that hee could neuer perceaue any &s;uch ap+pearance in that gentlemans inclinatio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="13"> But Mai&s;ter Alexander perceyuing his Ma|ie&s;ties priuie conference with the Duke, &amp; &s;u&s;pecting the purpo&s;e, as it appeared, came to the King, reque&s;ting his Maie&s;ty verie ear|ne&s;tlie that he &s;houlde make none living ac|quainted with that purpo&s;e, nor &s;uffer none to go with his Maie&s;ty where he &s;hould con|uoy him, but him&s;elfe onlie, vntill his Maie|&s;tie had once &s;eene the fellow and the Trea|&s;ure: wherevnto his Maie&s;tie halfe-laughing gaue an&s;were, that he was no good teller of money, and behooued therefore to haue &s;ome to helpe him in that erand: his replye was that hee would &s;uffer none to &s;ee it but his Maie&s;ties &s;elfe at the fir&s;t, but afterward he might call in whom hee plea&s;ed. The&s;e &s;peeches did &s;o encrea&s;e his Maie&s;ties &s;u&s;pi|tio~, that then he begouth directly to &s;u&s;pect <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ome trea&s;onable deui&s;e. Yet manie &s;u&s;piti|ons and thoughts ouerwhelming euery one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n other in his minde, his Maie&s;tie coulde <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;olue vpon no certaine thing, but raid fur|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">her on his iourney betwixt tru&s;t &amp; di&s;tru&s;t, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eeing a&s;hamed to &s;eeme to &s;u&s;pect in re&s;|pect
<PB REF="14"> of the cleanne&s;&s;e of his Maie&s;ties owne con&s;cience, except he had found &s;ome grea|ter ground. The &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander &s;till prea&s;ing the King to ride fa&s;ter, although his owne hor&s;e was &s;carcely able to keepe com|panie with the King for wearine&s;&s;e, hauing riden with him all the cha&s;e before. But a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the King was come two myles from Falk&punc; land, the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander &s;tayed a lit+tle behind the King in the way, and po&s;te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> away the other &s;eruand Andrew Ruthven <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Earle his brother, aduerti&s;ing him how farre the King was on his waye to come th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ther. Then how &s;oone &s;oeuer the King com<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> within a mile to the toun of Sanct-Iohn&s;to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> he &s;aid to his Maie&s;ty that he would po&s;te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> before to aduerti&s;e the Earle his brother <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Maie&s;ties comming: Who at his inco<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ming to him was &s;itting at the middes of h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Denner, neuer &s;eeming to take knowledg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Kings comming, whil his brother to it him, notwith&s;tanding of his two &s;eruan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> aduerti&s;ing him thereof of before. And i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+mediatlie vppon his brothers reporte ry&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="14"> in ha&s;te from the borde, and warning al the &s;eruants and friendes to accompany him to meet his maie&s;ty, met him to the number of three or four &s;core at the end of the In&s;h, his maie&s;ties whole co~panie &amp; train not excee|ding the nomber of &s;ixteene per&s;ons, and al without any kind of armour, except &s;words, no not &s;o much as Daggers or whingears. His Maie&s;tie &s;tayed an houre after his com|ming to the &s;aide Earles lodging in Sanct-Iohn&s;toun, before his Denner come in. The long&s;omne&s;&s;e of the prepairing of the &s;ame and badne&s;&s;e of the cheare beeing excu&s;ed vpon the &s;odainty of his maie&s;ties comming vnlooked for there. During the which tyme his Maie&s;ty enquyred of Mai&s;ter Alexander when it was time to him to goe to that pri|uate hou&s;e for that erand whereof he had in|formed him: who&s;e an&s;were was, that al was &s;ure enough, but that there was no ha&s;te yet for an houre, whill his maie&s;ty had dined at lei&s;ure. Praying his maie&s;ty to leaue him, &amp; not to be &s;een to round with him before his brother, who hauing mi&s;&s;ed him that mor|ning
<PB REF="15"> might therupon &s;u&s;pect what the mat|ter could meane. Therfore his maie&s;ty ad|dre&s;&s;ed him to the Erle, and di&s;our&s;ed with him vpon &s;undrie purpo&s;es, but culd get no direct an&s;were of him, but halfe wordes, and imperfect &s;entences. His maie&s;tie being &s;et down to the denner, the &s;aid Erle &s;tood very pen&s;iue, and with a deiected countenance at the end of his Maie&s;ties table, oft rounding ouer his &s;houlder whiles to one of his &s;er|uants, and whiles to another: and oftentims went out &amp; in to the chaber. Which forme of behauiour he likwi&s;e kept before his Ma+ie&s;ties &s;itting down to dinner. But without any welcomming of his Maie&s;tie, or anie o|ther hartlie forme of entertainement. The noblemen and gentlemen of the Court that was with his Maie&s;tie &s;tanding about the ta|ble, and not de&s;ired to dyne, as v&s;e is when his Maie&s;ty is once &s;et down, and his fir&s;t &s;er|uice brought vp, vntill the King Maie&s;ty had almo&s;t dyned. At the which time the Earle conuoyed them forth to their dinner, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;at not down with them him &s;elf, as the com+mon
<PB REF="15"> forme is&punc; but come back &amp; &s;tood &s;ilent at the end of the Kings table, as of before, which his Maie&s;tie perceauing did begin to entertaine the Earle in an homelie manner, wondring that he had not remained to dine with his gue&s;ts, and entertaine them there. In the meane time his Maie&s;ty beeing ready to ri&s;e from the Table,, and his whole &s;er|uants beeing in the hall at their Dinner, the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander &s;tanding behind his Maie&s;ties backe, pulled quietlie vppon him, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ounding in his maie&s;ties eare, that it was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ime to goe, but that hee woulde haue faine <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ene quite of the Earle his brorher, wi&s;hing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he King to &s;end him out to the hall to enter+taine his gue&s;ts: whereupon the King called <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or a drinke, and in a merry and homelie manner &s;aid to the Earle, that although the Earle had &s;eene the fa&s;hion of entertaine|ment in other countries, yet he would teach <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">im the Scotti&s;he fa&s;hion, &s;eeing hee was a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cotti&s;h man: and therefore &s;ince hee had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orgot to drink to his Maie&s;tie, or to &s;it with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is gue&s;ts and entertaine them, his Maie&s;tie
<PB REF="16"> would drink to him his owne welcome, de&s;i+ring him to take it foorth and drinke to th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> re&s;t of the co~pany, &amp; in his Maie&s;ties nam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to make them welcome. Whereupon as h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> went foorth his Maie&s;tie did ri&s;e from th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> table, and de&s;ired M. Alexander to bring S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Thomas Erskine with him, who de&s;iring th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> king to go forward with him, and promi&s;in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that he &s;hould make anie one or two follo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> him that he plea&s;ed to cal for: de&s;ired his m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ie&s;ty to command publikly that none &s;hul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> follow him. And thus the King accompan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ed onlie with the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexande<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> commes forth of the cha~ber, pa&s;&s;es throug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the end of the hal where the noble men a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Maie&s;ties &s;eruants were &s;itting at the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> dinner, vp a Turne-pyke, and through thr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> or four high chambers, the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+xander euer locking behind him euery do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> as he pa&s;t, and then with a more &s;myling c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+tenance nor he had all the day before, eu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;aying he had him &s;ure and &s;afe enough ke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vntil at la&s;t, his Maie&s;ty pa&s;&s;ing through th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> or four &s;ondrie hou&s;es, and all the dores lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ked
<PB REF="16"> behind him, his Maie&s;tie entered into a little &s;tudie, where his Maie&s;tie did &s;ee &s;tan|d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng with a verie aba&s;ed countenance, not a bou~d-man, but a free man with a dagger at his girdle. But his Maie&s;tie had no &s;ooner entered into that little &s;tudie, and Mai&s;ter A|lexander with him, but Mai&s;ter Alexander lokked to the &s;tudie dore behind him, and at that in&s;tant changing his countenaoce, put|ting his hat on his head, &amp; drawing the dag|ger from that other mans girdle, held the point of it to the kings brea&s;t, avowing now that the king behoued to be in his will, and v&s;ed as he li&s;t: &s;wearing manie bloody othes, that if the king cried one word, or opened a window to look out, that dagger &s;hould pre|&s;ently go to his hart. Affirming that he was &s;ure that now the kings con&s;cience was bur|dened for the murthering of his father. His Maie&s;tie wondering at &s;o &s;uddaine an altera+tion, and &s;tanding naked without any kynde of armour but his hunting horne, which hee had not gotten lei&s;ure to lay from him, be|twixt the&s;e two traitors which had con&s;pir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="17"> his life: the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander &s;tanding as &s;aid is, with a drawne dagger in his hand, and his &s;word at his &s;ide: but the other trem|bling and quaiking, rather like ane condem|ned man, then an executioner of &s;uch an en|terpry&s;e. His Maie&s;ty begouth then to dila<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> to the &s;aide Mai&s;ter Alexander, howe hor|rible a thing it was to him to meddle with his Maie&s;ties innocent blood, a&s;&s;uring him it would not be left vnreuenged, &s;ince God had giuen him children and good &s;ubiectes&punc; and if there were no more, God would rai&s;e vp &s;tocks and &s;tones to puni&s;h &s;o vyle a deed&punc; Prote&s;ting before God that hee had no bur|then in his con&s;cience for the execution o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his father: both in re&s;pect that at the time of his Fathers execution his Maie&s;ty was but a minor of age, and guyded at that time by a faction which ouer-ruled both his Maie&s;tie, and the re&s;t of the country&punc; as al&s;o that what|&s;oeuer was done to his father, it was done by the ordinar cour&s;e of Law and iu&s;tice. Ap|pealing the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander vpon his con&s;cience, how wel he at al times &s;ince had
<PB REF="17"> de&s;erued at the hands of al his race, not only hauing re&s;tored them to all their landes and dignities, but al&s;o in nouri&s;hing and vpbrin|ging of two or three of his &s;i&s;ters, as it were in his own bo&s;ome, by a co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">inual atte~da~ce vpon his M. deare&s;t bedfellow in her priuy Cha~ber. Laying al&s;o before him the terrors of his con&s;cience, e&s;pecially that he made profe&s;&s;ion according to his education of the &s;ame religion which his Maie&s;t. hes euer pro+fe&s;&s;ed: and namelie his Maie&s;tie remembred him of that holie man, M. Robert Rollock, who&s;e &s;choller he was, a&s;&s;uring him that one day the &s;aid M. Roberts &s;oule would accu&s;e him, that hee had neuer learned of him to practi&s;e &s;uch vnnaturall crueltie. His Maie&s;ty promi&s;ing to him in the worde of a Prince, that if he would &s;pare his life, and &s;uffer him to go out againe, he would neuer reueale to any fle&s;he liuing what was betwixt them at that time, nor neuer &s;uffer him to incur anie harme or puni&s;hment for the &s;ame. But his Maie&s;ties feare was, that hee could hope for no &s;pairing at his hand: hauing &s;uch cruelty
<PB REF="18"> in his lookes, &amp; &s;tanding &s;o irreuerently co|uered with his Hat on, which forme of rigo|rous behauiour could progno&s;ticat nothing to his Maie&s;ty, but pre&s;ent extremitie. But a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Maie&s;ties per&s;wa&s;iue language, hee ap|peared to bee &s;omewhat ama&s;ed, and di&s;co|uering his head againe, &s;wore and prote&s;ted that his Maie&s;ties lyfe &s;hould be &s;afe, if hee would behaue him&s;elfe quietly, without ma|king noyes or crying: &amp; that he would only bring in the Earle his brother, to &s;peak with his Maie&s;tie whereupon his Maie&s;tie enqui|ring what the Erle would do with him, &s;inc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> (if his Maie&s;ties life was &s;afe according to promi&s;e) they coulde gaine litle in keeping &s;uch a pri&s;oner. His an&s;were onlie was, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> he could tell his Maie&s;tie no more&punc; but tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his lyfe would be &s;afe, in cace hee behaue<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> him &s;elf quietlie, the re&s;t the Earle his bro+ther whome he was going for, would tel hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Maie&s;tie at his comming. And with that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> he was going forth for his brother, as he a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+med, he turned him about to the other m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;aying the&s;e wordes vnto him, I make y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="18"> heere the Kings keeper vntill I come back a|gaine, and look that ye keep him vppon your owne perill: and therewithal &s;ayes to his ma+ie&s;tie, ye mu&s;t content your &s;elfe to haue this man nowe your keeper vntill my back-com|ming. And with the&s;e words he pa&s;&s;es forth lokking the dore behinde him, and leauing his Maie&s;tie with that man he fand there be|fore him. At whome his Maie&s;tie then en|quired, if he was appointed to be the murthe+rer of him at that time, and how far he was v|pon the coun&s;ell of that con&s;piracie, who&s;e an&s;wer with a trembling &amp; a&s;toni&s;hed voice and behauiour, was, that as the Lord &s;hould judge him hee was neuer made acquainted with that purpo&s;e, but that he was put in ther perforce, and the dore lokked behinde him, a little &s;pace before his Maie&s;ties comming as indeede all the time of the &s;aid Mai&s;ter A|lexanders mena&s;&s;ing his Maie&s;tie he was e|uer tremblinglie reque&s;ting him for Gods &s;ake, and with manie other atte&s;tations, not to meddle with his Maie&s;tie, or to do him a|nie harme. But becau&s;e Mai&s;ter Alexander
<PB REF="19"> had before his forth going made the king to &s;weare that he &s;hould not cry nor open anie of the windoes, his Maie&s;ty commanded the &s;aid fellow to open the windo with his hand which he readelie did &s;o that although hee was put in there to v&s;e violence ouer the king, yet God &s;o turned his hart at that time, as he become a &s;laue to his pri&s;oner. While his Maie&s;tie was in this dangerous e&s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &amp; none of his owne &s;eruants nor traine know|ing in what part of the worlde he was in as his Maie&s;ties traine was ari&s;ing in the Hall from their Dinner, the Earle of Gowry be|ing pre&s;ent with them, one of the Earle of Gowries &s;eruants commes ha&s;telie in, a&s;&s;u|ring the Erle his ma&s;ter that his maie&s;ty was hor&s;ed &amp; away through the In&s;he, which the Erle reporting to the noblemen and the re&s;t of his Maie&s;ties train that was there, they all ru&s;he out together at the gate in great ha&s;te: and &s;ome of his maie&s;ties &s;eruants inquyring at the Porter when his Maie&s;tie went forth? the Porter affirmed that the king was not yet forth, whereupon the &s;aid Earle looked
<PB REF="19"> verie angerly vpon him, and &s;aid he was but a liear: yet turning him to the Duke and to the Earle of Mar, &s;aid, hee would pre&s;entlie <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">get them &s;ure word where his Maie&s;tie was. And with that ran throgh the clo&s;e, &amp; vp the &s;taire. But his purpo&s;e indeede was to &s;peak with his brother, as appeared verie well by the circum&s;tance of the time, his brother ha+uing at that &s;ame in&s;tant left the king in the little &s;tudie, and ran down the &s;taire in great ha&s;te. Immediatly thereafter the Earle com|meth back running againe to the gate wher the noble men &amp; the re&s;t were &s;tanding in a ma&s;e, a&s;&s;uring them that the king was out <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ong &s;ince at the back gate, &amp; if they ha&s;ted not them all the &s;ooner, they would not get him ouertaken, and with that cried for his hor&s;e, whereupon they ru&s;he altogether out at the gate, and makes towardes the In&s;he, crying all for their hor&s;es: Pa&s;&s;ing all (as it was the prouidence of God) vnder one of the windoes of that &s;tudie, wherein his Maie&s;tie was. To whom Mai&s;ter Alexander verie &s;pe|delie returned, and at his incomming to his
<PB REF="20"> Maie&s;tie, ca&s;ting his hands abroade in a de&s;+perate manner, &s;aid, he coulde not mend it, his Maie&s;tie behooued to die: and with that offered a garter to bind his Maie&s;ties hand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with &s;wearing he behooued to be bou~d. Hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Maie&s;ty at that word of binding &s;aid, he was borne a free king&punc; and &s;hould die a free king&punc; Whereupon hee gripping his Maie&s;tie by the wre&s;t of the hand to haue bound him, hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Maie&s;tie releeued him &s;elfe &s;uddainlie of his grips: whereupon as he put his right hand to his &s;worde, his Maie&s;tie with his right han<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;eazed vpon both his hand and his &s;word, &amp; with his left hand cla&s;ped him by the throa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> like as he with his left hand cla&s;ped the king by the throat, with two or thre of his fingers in his Maie&s;ties mouth to haue &s;taied him fr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> crying. In this forme of wre&s;tling his Ma|ie&s;tie perforce drewe him to the windoe which hee had cau&s;ed the other man befor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to open vnto him, and vnder the which was pa&s;&s;ing by at the &s;ame time the kings traine and the Earle of Gowrie with them, as &s;ai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> is and holding out the right &s;ide of his hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="20"> and right elbowe, cried that they were mur|thering him there in that trea&s;onable form: who&s;e voice being in&s;tantly hard &amp; known by the Duke of Lennox, the Earle of Mar &amp; the re&s;t of his Maie&s;ties traine there, but the &s;aide Earle of Gowrie euer asking what it meant: and neuer &s;eeming anie wayes to haue &s;eene his Maie&s;tie or heard his voice, they all ru&s;hed in at the gate together, the Duke and the Earle of Mar running about to come by that pa&s;&s;age his Maie&s;ty come in at But the Earle of Gowrie and his &s;eruants made them for an other way vp a quyet turn|pike which was euer condemned before, &amp; was onclie then left open, as appeared for that purpo&s;e. And in this meane time his Maie&s;tie with &s;trugling and wra&s;tling with the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander, had broght him out perforce out of that &s;tudy, the dore wher of, for ha&s;te he had left open at his la&s;t inco~|ming and his Maie&s;tie hauing gotten with long &s;trugling the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexanders head vnder his arme, and him &s;elfe on his knees, his Maie&s;tie did driue him backe per|force
<PB REF="21"> hard to the doore of the &s;ame Turne&punc; pike, and as his Maie&s;tie was throwing his &s;word out of his hand, thinking to haue &s;tri|ken him therewith, and then to haue &s;hott<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> him over the &s;tair, the other fellow &s;tanding behinde the kings backe, and doing nothing but trembling al the time, Sir Iohn Ram&s;ay, not knowing what way fir&s;t to enter, after he had heard the Kings cry, by cha~ce finds that turnepik dore open, &amp; following it vp to the head, enters in into the chamber, and findes his Maie&s;tie and Mai&s;ter Alexander &s;trug|ling in that forme, as is before &s;aid: and after he had twi&s;e or thri&s;e &s;tricken Mai&s;ter Alex|ander with his dagger, the other man with|drew him&s;elfe, his Maie&s;tie &s;till keeping his grips, and holding him clo&s;e to him: imme|diatlie thereafter hee tooke the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander by the &s;houlders, and &s;hotte him downe the &s;taire: who was no &s;ooner &s;hotte out at the dore, but he was met by Sir Tho|mas Erskine and Sir Hew Hereis, who there vpon the &s;taire ended him: the &s;aid Sir Tho|mas Erskine beeing ca&s;ten behind the Duk<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="21"> and the Erle of Mar that ran about the other way, by the occa&s;ion of his medling with the &s;aid late Earle vppon the &s;treet, after the hearing of his Maie&s;ties cry. For vppon the hearing thereof, he had cla&s;ped the Earle of Gowrie by the gorget, and ca&s;ting him vn|der his feete, and wanting a Dagger to haue &s;triken him with, the &s;aid Earles men redde the Earle their Mai&s;ter out of his handes: whereby he was ca&s;ten behinde the re&s;t, as &s;aid is: and mi&s;&s;ing the companie, and hea|ring the &s;aid Sir Iohn Ram&s;ayes voice vpon the Turn-pike head, ran vp to the &s;aid cham|ber, and cried vpon the &s;aid Sir Hew Hereis and another &s;eruant to follow him: where, meeting with the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander in the Turne-pike, he ended him there, as &s;aid is: the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander onely crying for his la&s;t words, Allace I had not the wyte of it. But no &s;ooner could the &s;aids, Sir Tho|mas, Sir Hew, and another &s;eruant win in to the chamber wher his Maie&s;ty was, but that the &s;aid Earle of Gowrie before they could get the dore &s;hutte, followed them in at the
<PB REF="22"> back, hauing ca&s;ten him directlie to come vp that priuie pa&s;&s;age, as is before &s;aide: who at his fir&s;t entrie, hauing a drawne &s;worde in e|uerie hand, and a &s;teil-bonet on his head, accompanied with &s;euen of his &s;eruants, e|uerie one of them hauing in like manner a drawne &s;word, cried out with a great oath, that they &s;houlde all die as traitors. All the which time his Maie&s;t&punc; was &s;till in the cham|ber, who &s;eeing the Erle of Gowrie come in with his &s;wordes in his hands, &s;ought for M. Alexanders &s;word which had falle~ from him at his out &s;hutting at the dore, hauing no &s;ort of weapon of his own, as &s;aid is: but then was &s;hot backe by his owne &s;eruants that were there, into the little &s;tudie, and the dore &s;hut vppon him: who hauing put his Maie&s;tie in &s;afetie, re-encountred the &s;aid Earle and his &s;eruants, his Maie&s;ties &s;eruants being onlie in nomber four: to wit, Sir Thomas Erskine, Sir Hew Hereis, Sir Iohn Rame&s;ay, and one Wil&s;oun, a &s;erunat of Iames Erskines, a bro|ther of the &s;aid Sir Thomas, the &s;aid Erle ha|uing &s;euen of his &s;eruants with him: Yet it
<PB REF="22"> plea&s;ed God after manie &s;trokes on all hands to giue his Maie&s;ties &s;eruants the victorie, the &s;aide <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arle of Gowrie beeing &s;tricken dead with a &s;troke through the heart, which the &s;aid Sir Iohn Ram&s;ay gaue him, without once crying vpon God, and the re&s;t of his &s;eruants dung ouer the &s;tair with many hurts as in like manner the &s;aide Sir Thomas Er|skine, Sir Hew Hereis, and Sir Iohn Ram&s;ay, were all three hurt and wounded. But all the time of this fight, the Duke of Lennox, the Earle of Mar, and the re&s;t of his Maie&s;t train, were &s;tryking with great hammers at the vt|ter dore, whereby his Maie&s;tie pa&s;t vp to the chamber with the &s;aid Mai&s;ter Alexander, which al&s;o he had lokked in his bycomming with his Maie&s;ty to the chamber, but by rea|&s;on of the &s;trength of the &s;aide double dore, the whole wall being likewi&s;e of bordes, and yeelding with the &s;trakes: it did byde them the &s;pace of half an houre and more, before they coulde get it broken and haue entre&s;&s;e. Who hauing met with his Maie&s;tie, fand (beyond their expectation) his Maie&s;tie deli|uered
<PB REF="23"> from &s;o imminent a perill, and the &s;aid late Earle the principall con&s;pirator lying dead at his Maie&s;ties feete. Immediatlie thereafter his Maie&s;tie kneeling downe, on his knees, in the mid&s;t of his owne &s;eruants, and they all kneeling round about him, his Maie&s;ty out of his own mouth thanked God of that miraculous deliuerance and victory, a&s;&s;uring him &s;elfe that God had pre&s;erued him from &s;o di&s;paired a perrill for the perfi|ting of &s;ome greater worke behinde to his glorie, and for the procuring by him the wel of his people, that God had committed to his charge. After this the tumult of the toun hearing of the &s;laughter of the &s;aid Earle of Gowrie their Prouo&s;t, and not knowing the manner thereof, nor beeing on the coun&s;ell of his trea&s;onable attempt, continued for the &s;pace of two or three houres there after, vntill his Maie&s;tie by oft &s;peaking out to the~ at the windoes, and beakening to them with his owne hand, pacifying them, cau&s;ing the Baylies and the re&s;t of the hone&s;t men of the toun to bee brought into the chamber, to
<PB REF="23"> whom hauing declared the whole forme of that &s;trange accident, he co~mitted the hou&s;e and bodies of the &s;aide traitors, brethren, to their keeping, vntill his Maie&s;ties further plea&s;ure were knowne. His Maie&s;tie hauing before his parting out of that toun, cau&s;ed &s;earche the &s;aide Earle of Gowries pockets, in cace anie letters that might further the di&s;couerie of that con&s;piracie, might bee found therein. But no thing was found in them, but a little clo&s;e parchment bag, full of Magicall characters, and words of incha~t|ment, wherein it &s;eemed that he had put his confidence, thinking him&s;elf neuer &s;afe with out them, and therefore euer carried them about with him: beeing al&s;o ob&s;erued, that while they were vpon him, his wound wher|of he died, bled not, but incontinent after the taking of them away, the blood gu&s;hed out in great aboundance, to the great admi|ration of al the beholders. An infamy which hath followed and &s;potted the race of this hou&s;e, for manie di&s;cents, as is notoriou&s;lie knowne to the whole countrie. Thus the
<PB REF="24"> night was far &s;pent, being neir eight houres at euening before his Maie&s;ty could for the great tumult that was in the toun, departe out of the &s;ame. But before his Maie&s;tie had ridden four myles out of the &s;ame towardes Falkland, although the night was verie darke and rainie: the whole way was cled with all &s;orte of people&punc; both on hor&s;e &amp; foote, mee|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing him with great ioy and acclamation. The frequencie and concur&s;e of per&s;ons of all degrees to Falkland the re&s;t of the weeke, and to Edinburgh the next, from al the quar+ters of the cou~trie, the te&s;timony of the &s;ub|jects hearty affection and ioy for his Maie&s;t. deliuery, expre&s;&s;ed euerywher by ringing of bels, bonefires, &s;hutting of gunnes of al &s;orts both by &s;ea &amp; land, &amp;c. with all other things en&s;uing therupon, I haue of &s;et purpo&s;e pre|termitted, as well knowne to all men, &amp; im|pertinent to this di&s;cour&s;e: contenting my &s;elfe with this plaine and &s;imple narration: adding onlie for explanation and confirma|tion thereof, the depo&s;itions of certaine per|&s;ons who vere either actors, and eie-witne&s;|&s;es,
<PB REF="24"> or immediat hearers of tho&s;e things that they declair and te&s;tifie: wherein if the Rea|der &s;hall finde anie thing differing from this narration, either in &s;ub&s;tance or circum|&s;tance, he may vnder&s;tand the &s;ame to be vt|tered by the deponer in his own behoof, for obtaining of his Maie&s;ties Princelie grace and favour.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="deposition">
<HEAD>APVD FALKLAND 9. Augu&s;t. 1600. In pre&s;ence of the Lord Chancellar, Lord <HI>Trea&s;urer, Lord Secretare, Lord Comptroller Lord Advocate, the Lord Incheffray, and Sir George Home of Spot Knight.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IAmes Weimis of Bogy of the age of xxvi. yeare or thereby, &s;worne and examined v|pon the forme and manner of behauiour of late Iohn Earle of Gowry, the time of his be|ing with him at Strabran, or if he had heard the &s;aid Earle make ony motion of the trea|&s;on
<PB REF="25"> intended again&s;t his Maie&s;tie, Depones that hee neither heard nor &s;awe any appea|rance of anie &s;uch intention in the &s;aid Erle.</P>
<P>Demanded, if hee was in anie purpo&s;e with the &s;aid Earle anent anie matters of cu|rio&s;itie: Depones, that at their being in Stra|bran, &s;ome of their companie found an Ed|der, which being killed, &amp; knowledge ther|of comming to the Earle, the Earle &s;aide to this Deponer, Bogy if the Edder had not beene &s;laine, yee &s;hould haue &s;eene a good &s;port: for I &s;hould haue cau&s;ed her &s;tand &s;till, and &s;he &s;hould not haue prei&s;&s;ed away, by pronouncing of an hebrew word, which in Scotti&s;h is called Holine&s;&s;e, but the Hebrew word the Deponer remembers not of: and that the Earle &s;aide hee had put the &s;ame in practi&s;e of before. And this Deponer enquy|ring at the Earle where hee did get the He|brew word: the Earle an&s;wered, in a Cabba|li&s;t of the Iewes, and that it was by Traditi|on: and the Deponer inquiring what a Cab|bali&s;t meaned? the Earle an&s;wered, it was &s;ome words which the Iewes had by Tradi|tion,
<PB REF="25"> which wordes were &s;poken by God to Adam in Paradice, and therefore were of greater efficacie and force, nor anie wordes which were excogitate &s;ince by Prophetes and Apo&s;tles. The Deponer inquyring if there was no more requi&s;ite but the worde? The Erle an&s;wered, that a firme faith in God was requi&s;ite and nece&s;&s;ar: and that this was&punc; no matter of meruel among&s;t Schollers, but that all the&s;e things were naturall. And that the Earle &s;hew to this Deponer that hee had &s;poken with a man in Italie, and fir&s;t hearing by reporte that he was a Nigromancer, and therafter being informed that he was a verie learned man and a deep Theologue, he ent<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+red in further dealing with him anent the c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+rio&s;ities of nature.</P>
<P>Depones further that the &s;aid Erle repor|ted to him that he beeing at the Mu&s;ick, h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e fel in companie with another man, who &s;tai|ring in the Earles face, &s;pak to the re&s;t of the companie things of him, which he could ne|uer attaine vnto, nor be worthie of: &amp; there|fore that the Earle reproached him, and de|&s;ired
<PB REF="26"> him to forbeare the&s;e &s;peaches. And that he met again with the &s;aid man in alike company, who did begin with the &s;ame lan|guage which he had &s;poke~ before: &amp; that the Earle &s;aid to him, my friend, in cace yee wil not hold your peace fro~ &s;peaking lies of mee I will make you hold your peace by &s;peaking &s;ooth of you: and &s;aid vnto him within &s;uch a &s;pace he &s;hould be hanged for &s;uch a crime: and &s;o it came to pa&s;&s;e. This Deponer inqui|ring of the Earle who told him that, he an|&s;wered merely, that he &s;pake it begue&s;&s;e &amp; it fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> out &s;o. And that the Erle &s;aid further, that it was nothing to make an herbe fle&s;h which would di&s;&s;olue in flies: and that likewi&s;e it was po&s;&s;ible that the &s;eed of man &amp; woman might bee brought to perfection otherwi&s;e then by the matrix of the woman: and that this Deponer coun&s;elled the Earle to bewar with whom he did communicate &s;uch &s;pee|ches: who an&s;wered, that hee woulde &s;peake them to none, but to great &s;chollers, &amp; that hee would not haue &s;poken them to this de|poner, if he had not knowne him to bee a fa|uourer
<PB REF="26"> of him, and a friend of his hou&s;e, and would not reueale the &s;ame again, &s;eeing he knew they would be euill inter|preted among&s;t the com|mon &s;orte.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sic &s;ub&s;cribitur, I Weimys of Degie.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="deposition">
<HEAD><HI>Apud Falkland 20. Augu&s;t.</HI> 1600. IN PRESENCE OF THE Lords Chancellar, Trea&s;urer, Advocate: Sir George Home of Spot, Sir Robert <HI>Meluill, and, Sir Iames Meluill Knichts.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MAi&s;ter William Rynd &s;worne and exa|mined, and demanded where hee fir&s;te did &s;ee the Charecters which were found v|pon my Lord: Depones, that hee hauing re|mained a &s;pace in Venice, at his returning to Padua, did finde in my Lords pocket the Cha+racters which were found vppon him at his death: and the deponer inquiring of my lord
<PB REF="27"> where he had gotten them, my Lord an&s;we+red that by chance he had copied them him+&s;elfe: and that the deponer knowes that the Characters in Latine are my Lords owne hand write, but he knowes not if the hebrew Characters were written by my Lord. De|pones further that when my Lord woulde change his clothes, the Deponer would take the Characters out of my Lords pocket, and would &s;ay to my Lord, wherfore &s;erues the&s;e? and my Lord would an&s;were, can yee not let them be, they doe you no euill: and further the deponer declares, that &s;ometimes my Lord would forget them vntill hee were out of his chamber, and would turn back as hee were in an anger, vntil he had found them, &amp; put them in his owne pocket: Depones fur|ther that hee was &s;undrie times purpo&s;ed to haue brunt the Characters, were not he fea|red my Lords wraith and anger, &s;eing when the Deponer would purpo&s;elie leaue them &s;ometimes out of my Lords pocket, my Lord would bee in &s;uch an anger with the Depo|ner, that for a certaine &s;pace he woulde not
<PB REF="27"> &s;peak with him, nor could finde his good cou~+<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">enance: and that to this deponers opinion, my Lord woulde neuer bee content to want the characters off him &s;elfe, fro~ the fir&s;t time that the deponer did &s;ee them in Padua, to the houre of my Lords death.</P>
<P>Being demanded for what cau&s;e my Lord kept the Characters &s;o well? Depones, that to his opinion it was for no good, becau&s;e he heard that in tho&s;e parts where my Lord was, they would giue &s;undrie folks breeues.</P>
<P>Depones further, that M. Patrik Galloway did let this Deponer &s;ee the Characters, &s;ince he came to this toun of Falkland, and that he knowes them to be the very &s;ame cha+racters which my Lord had.</P>
<P>Depones al&s;o, that vppon Monday the 4. of Augu&s;t, the Mai&s;ter, Andrew Hender|&s;oun, &amp; the Deponer remained in my Lords chamber vntil about ten houres at euen, and after a long conference betwixt the Lord &amp; the Mai&s;ter, my Lord called for Andrew He~|der&s;oun, and after &s;ome &s;peeches with him, di&s;mi&s;&s;ed them.
<PB REF="28"> Denies that he knew of the Mai&s;ters or A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+drew Hender&s;ounsryding to Falkland, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> after Andrewes returne from Falkland vpo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the morrow, howbeit he did &s;ee him boote<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> yet he knew not that he was come from Fal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+land.</P>
<P>Depones that my lord being at dinner wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Mai&s;ter come in, the deponer heard m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lord &s;ay to the Mai&s;ter, Is the King in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> In&s;he? and with that he did ri&s;e, &amp; &s;aid let vs goe. But the deponer knowes not what the Mai&s;ter &s;aid to my Lord.</P>
<P>Beeing demanded if he did &s;ee anie kinde of armour or weapons, except &s;words, in the Kings companie, depones that he did &s;ee none.</P>
<P>It being demanded how the deponer was &s;atisfied with my Lords an&s;were made to him concerning the Kings comming to Sanct-Iohn&s;toun, &s;aying that hee knewe not how he come: declares that he thought that my Lord had di&s;&s;embled with him, and that he behooued to haue knowne it, &s;eeing his brother was come with his Maie&s;tie befo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="28"> that he demanded of him: and that hee had confered with my Lord priuilie.</P>
<P>Depones that he knew no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that the Mai|&s;ter was ridden to Falkland, vntill after his Maie&s;ties comming to Sanct-Iohn&s;ton, that Andrew Kuthwen tolde him, becau&s;e the de|poner inquired at Andrew Ruthwen where the Mai&s;ter and he had bene, &amp; that Andrew an&s;wered they had bene in Falkland: &amp; that the Mai&s;ter hauing &s;poken with the King, his Maie&s;tie come forward with them, and that this conference betwixt the Deponer and Andrew Ruthwen was in the yarde when my Lord was there. And Andrew Ruthwen &s;hew to the Deponer that Andrew Hender|&s;oun was directed by the Mai&s;ter to &s;hew my Lord that his Maie&s;tie was comming.</P>
<P>Depones al&s;o that in his opinion, the Mai&s;ter could not haue drawen the King to my Lords hou&s;e, without my Lords know|ledge: and that when hee heard the tumult, he was re&s;olued in his heart the Mai&s;ter had done his Maie&s;tie wrong, and that no trewe chri&s;tian can think otherwi&s;e, but that it was
<PB REF="29"> an high trea&s;on, attempted again&s;t his Hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ne&s;&s;e by the Mai&s;ter and the Lord:</P>
<P>Depones al&s;o that to his opinion the king<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> whole companie was within a dozen of men&punc;</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sic &s;ub&s;cribitur. M. W. Rynd.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>22. <HI>August.</HI> 1600.</HEAD>
<P>Mai&s;ter William Rynd &s;worne and reex+amined, if euer he heard the Erle of Gowr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vtter his opinion a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent the dutie of an wi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> man in the execution of an high enterpri&s;e&punc; Declares that being out of the countrie, hee hes diuer&s;e times heard him rea&s;on in that matter: and that he was euer of that opinion that he was not an wi&s;e man, that hauing in+tended the execution of an high and dange+rous purpo&s;e, communicate the &s;ame to any but to him &s;elfe, becau&s;e keeping it to him &s;elfe, it coulde not bee di&s;couered nor di&s;ap|pointed, which the deponer declared before vn-required to the Co~ptroller, and M. Wil+liam Cowper Mini&s;ter at Perth: &amp; hearing the depo&s;itions of Andrew Hender&s;oun red<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp; being enquired vpon his con&s;cience wha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="29"> hee thought of the fact that was committed again&s;t his Maie&s;tie, declares that vppon his &s;aluation that he beleeues Andrew Hender|&s;oun hes declared the circum&s;tances trulie.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sic &s;ub&s;cribitur, M. W. Rynd.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>Apud Falkland 20. Augu&s;t.</HI> 1600. IN PRESENCE OF THE LORDS Chancellar, Trea&s;urer, Aduocatt, <HI>Comp|troller: and Sir Grorge Home of Spot, Sir Iames Melvill Knights.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANdrew Hender&s;oun &s;worne and exami|ned, and demanded what purpo&s;e was betwixt him and the Earle of Gowrie&punc; vpon Monday at night the fourth of this in&s;tant in the &s;aid Earles chamber? Depones that the Earle inquired of him what he would be doing vpon the morrow, and he an&s;wering that hee was to ryde to Ruthwen: the Earle &s;aid to him, you mu&s;t ryde to Falkland with Mai&s;ter Alexander my brother, and when
<PB REF="30"> he directs you back, &s;ee that ye returne with all diligence, if he &s;end a letter or anie othe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> aduerti&s;ement with you.</P>
<P>Depones, that the Mai&s;ter directed him to &s;end for Andrew Ruthwen to be in readi|ne&s;&s;e to ryde with them the morrow at four houres in the morning.</P>
<P>Declares, that they comming to Falkland about &s;euen hours in the morning, the Mai|&s;ter &s;tayed in a ludging be&s;ide the Palice&punc; &amp; directed the deponer to &s;ee what the King was doing, and the deponer finding his Ma|ie&s;tie in the clo&s;e co~ming forth, he pa&s;t back &amp; told the Mai&s;ter, who immediatly addre&s;|&s;ed him &s;elf to his Hienes, &amp; &s;pake with his Maie&s;tie a good &s;pace beneth the Equerie: &amp; after his Maie&s;ty was on hor&s;e back, the Mai|&s;ter commes to the Deponer, &amp; commands him to fetche their hor&s;es, and bade him ha&s;te him as he loued my Lords honour and his, and aduerti&s;e my Lord that his Maie&s;tie and he would be there incontinent, and that his Maie&s;ty would be quiet, and the deponer inquyring at the Mai&s;ter if he &s;hould go pre+&s;entlie,
<PB REF="30"> hee did bid him leap on and follow him, and not to go away vntill he &s;pak with the King: and the Mai&s;ter hauing &s;poken with the King, at a breach of the Park wal he turned backe &amp; bade the deponer ride away. &amp; the deponer making his return in al po&s;&s;i|ble ha&s;te to Sanct-Iohn&s;toun, hee fand my Lord in his chamber about ten houres, who left the companie he was &s;peaking with, and come to the deponer, &amp; asked, hath my bro|ther &s;ent a letter with you? the deponer an|&s;wered, no: but they will be all heere incon|tinent, and bade the deponer de&s;ire my Lord to cau&s;e prepare the dinner. Immediatlie thereafter my Lord took the deponer to the Cabinet, and asked at him, how his Maie&s;ty took with the Mai&s;ter his brother? the de|poner an&s;wered, verie wel, and that his Ma|ie&s;tie laide his hand ouer the Mai&s;ters &s;houl|der. Thereafter my Lord enquired if there was manie at the hunting with the King? the deponer an&s;wered, that he took no heed, but they who were accu&s;tomed to ride with his Maje&s;tie, and &s;ome Engli&s;hmen were there:
<PB REF="31"> and that my Lord inquired what &s;pecial me~ were with his Maje&s;tie, and that the depo|ner an&s;wered hee did &s;ee none but my Lord Duke. And within an hour thereafter, vvhen the deponer came in from his owne hou&s;e, the Earle bade him put on his Secreit and Plait-&s;leeues, for he had an hey-land man to take, which the Deponer did incontinent: and about tvvelue houres, vvhen the depo|ner was going out to his owne hou&s;e to his dinner, the &s;teward came to him and &s;hewe him that George Craigingelt was not well, and was lyne downe, de&s;ired him to tary and take vp my Lords dinner: and about half an houre after twelue my Lord commanded him to take vp the fir&s;t &s;eruice. And when the deponer was commanded to take vp the &s;econd &s;eruice, the Mai&s;ter and Wil|liam Blair came in to the Hall to my Lord.</P>
<P>The deponer remembreth him&s;elfe, that Andrew Ruthwen came before the Mai|&s;ter a certaine &s;pace, and &s;pake with my Lord quyetlie at the table, but heard not the par|ticular purpo&s;e that was among&s;t them. And &s;o &s;oone as the Mai&s;ter came to the Hall, my
<PB REF="31"> Lord &amp; the whole companie rai&s;e from the table: and the deponer hearing the noyes of their foorth-going, &s;upponed they were going to Makebreakes for Makilduy: and the deponer &s;ent his boy for his gantlet and &s;teil-bonnet: and &s;eeing my Lord pa&s;&s;e to the In&s;he and not to the &s;hoe gate, the de|poner did ca&s;t the gantlet in the Pantrie, and cau&s;ed his boy take his &s;teil-bonnet to his owne hou&s;e: and hee followed my Lord to the In&s;he, and returning back with his Ma|ie&s;tie to the lodging, beeing directed to get drinke. And the Mai&s;ter came to the depo|ner, and did bid him cau&s;e Mai&s;ter William Rynd &s;end him vp the key of the Gallerie chamber, who pa&s;t vp and deliuered the key to the Mai&s;ter: and immediatlie my Lorde followed vp, and did &s;peak with the Mai&s;ter, and came downe againe, and directed Mai|&s;ter Thomas Cran&s;toun to the deponer to come to his Lord&s;hip in his Maie&s;ties cham|ber. And that my Lord directed him to goe vp to the Gallerie to his brother: and imme|diatlie my Lord followed vp, and comman|ded the deponer to byde there with his bro|ther,
<PB REF="32"> and to doe anie thing that hee bade him. The Deponer enquired at the Mai&s;ter what haue ye to do Sir? the Mai&s;ter an&s;we|red, ye mu&s;t goe in heere, and tarrie vntill I come back, for I will take the key with mee. So he lokked the deponer in the round with|in the chamber, and took the key with him. Shortlie there-after, the Mai&s;ter returned, &amp; the Kings Maie&s;tie with him to the &s;aide ca|binet in the rounde: and the Mai&s;ter ope|ning the dore, entered with the King into the &s;aid rounde: and at his verie entrie coue|ring his head, pulled out the deponers Dag|ger, and held the &s;ame to his Maie&s;ties brea&s;t, &s;aying: Remember you of my fathers murther? yee &s;hall now die for it: and min|ting to his Hienes heart with the dagger, the deponer threw the &s;ame out of the Mai&s;ters hand: and &s;wore, that, as God &s;hall iudge his &s;oule, if the Mai&s;ter had retained the dag|ger in his hand the &s;pace that a man may go &s;ix &s;teppes, he would haue &s;tricken the King to the hilts with it: but wanting the Dag|ger, and the Kings Maie&s;tie giuing him a
<PB REF="32"> gentle an&s;were, hee &s;aid to the Kings Maie|&s;tie with abhominable oathes: that if hee would keep &s;ilence no thing &s;hould aile him if hee woulde make &s;uch promi&s;e to his bro|ther, as they would craue of him &amp; the kings maie&s;ty inquiring what promi&s;e they would craue: he an&s;wered that hee would bring his brother. So he goes foorth, and lokkes the dore of the round vppon his Maie&s;tie and the deponer: hauing fir&s;t taken the King &s;worne that hee &s;hould not cry nor open the windoe.</P>
<P>And his Maie&s;tie inquiring at the depo|ner what he was? he an&s;wered a &s;eruant of my Lords. And his Maie&s;ty asking at the de|poner, if my Lord woulde doe anie euill to him? the deponer an&s;wered, as God &s;hall iudge my &s;oule, I &s;hall die fir&s;t. And the de|poner prei&s;ing to haue opened the windoe, the Mai&s;ter entreed, and &s;aid: Sir there is no remedie By God you mu&s;t die: and hauing a loo&s;e garter in his hand, prei&s;&s;ed to haue bound his Maie&s;ties hands, and the deponer pulled the garter out of Mai&s;ter Alexanders his
<PB REF="33"> hand. And then the Mai&s;ter did put one of his handes in his Maie&s;ties mouth, to haue &s;taied him to &s;peak, and held his other arme about his Hienes neck: and that this depo|ner pulled the Mai&s;ters hand from his Hie|ne&s;&s;e mouth, and opened the windoe: and then his Maie&s;tie cried out thereat, whereu|pon his Hienes &s;eruant came in at the gate, and this deponer did run and open the dore of the Turne-pike heade, where at Iohn Ram&s;ay entered: and the deponer &s;toode in the Chamber vntil he did &s;ee Iohn Ram&s;ay giue the Mai&s;ter ane &s;troke: and there-after priuilie conuoyed him&s;elf downe the Turn|pike to his owne hou&s;e: and the deponers wife inquiring of him what the fraie mea|ned? the deponer an&s;wered, that the Kings Maie&s;tie would haue beene twi&s;e &s;tikked were not he relee|ued him.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sic &s;ub&s;cribitur, Andrevv Hender&s;oun vvith my hand.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Further, the &s;aide Andrew Hender&s;oun Depones, that after his returning from Falk|land vpon the fifth of this in&s;tant, Mai&s;ter Iohn Montcrief en quyring of him where he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ad beene? He an&s;wered, that he had bene <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eyond the bridge of Erne: and &s;ayes that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ee gaue that an&s;were to Mai&s;ter Iohn, be|cau&s;e my Lord commanded him to let no man knowe that he was to ride to Falkland: and that my Lords direction to him, was, to come back with his brother Mai&s;ter A|lexanders an&s;were, and to leaue Andrew Ruthwen to await vpon the Mai|&s;ter.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sic &s;ub&s;cribitur, Andrevv Hender&s;oun vvith my hand.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Further, the &s;aide Andrew Hender&s;oun Depones, that when hee had taken the Mai|&s;ters hand out of the Kings Maie&s;t. mouth, &amp;
<PB REF="34"> was opening the windoe, Mai&s;ter Alexan+der &s;aid to him, Will thou not helpe? W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> betyde thee, thow will make vs all die.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sic &s;ub&s;cribitur, Andrevv Hender&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vvith my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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