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When the minds of the people were sufficiently prepared by these lectures, a conspiracy of the nobility was formed, probably with the concurrence of Elizabeth, for seizing the person of James at Ruthven, a seat of the earl of Gowry's; and the design, being kept secret, succeeded without any opposition. * Camden, p. 486. Spotswood, p. 319., Spotswood, p. 320.
Burnet says that competent provision to those who served the cure: was afterwards in his son's time raised to about fifty pounds a year. Swift. Scotch pounds, I suppose. Burnet. Swift. Titus was the greatest rogue in England. Burnet says that Gowry's conspiracy against King James was confirmed to him by his father. Swift. Melvil makes nothing of it. Burnet.
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