James Vi And The Gowrie Mystery

Author : Andrew Lang
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ISBN 13 : 9781332166169
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book James Vi and the Gowrie Mystery (Classic Reprint) written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from James Vi and the Gowrie Mystery An old Scottish lady, four generations ago, used to say, 'It is a great comfort to think that, at the Day of Judgment, we shall know the whole truth about the Gowrie Conspiracy at last.' Since the author, as a child, read 'The Tales of a Grandfather, ' and shared King Jamie's disappointment when there was no pot of gold, but an armed man, in the turret, he had supposed that we do know all about the Gowrie Conspiracy, that it was a plot to capture the King, carry him to Fastcastle, and 'see how the country would take it, ' as in the case of the Gunpowder Plot. But just as Father Gerard has tried to show that the Gunpowder affair may have been Cecil's plot, so modern historians doubt whether the Gowrie mystery was not a conspiracy by King James himself. Mr. Hume Brown appears rather to lean to this opinion, in the second volume of his 'History of Scotland, ' and Dr. Masson, in his valuable edition of the 'Register of the Privy Council, ' is also dubious. Mr. Louis Barbe, in his 'Tragedy of Gowrie House, ' holds a brief against the king. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.