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This trial is not alluded to, either by Calderwood or Archbishop Spottiswoode, in their histories. The five letters produced in the trial of Logan exist, and have been accepted as authentic by Mr. Tytler and Mr. Hill Burton, but not by writers who favour the Ruthvens. Meanwhile what had Sprot really said, under private examination, between July 5 and August 12, 1608, when he was executed?
That is all. Nothing more is attributed to the Murrays, and the contemporary apologist did not try to make capital out of them. Though the narrative of the contemporary apologist for the Ruthvens appears absolutely to lack evidence for its assertions, it reveals, on analysis, a consistent theory of the King’s plot.
The value of the Apology, so long overlooked, is to show how very poor a case was the best that the vindicator of the Ruthvens was able to produce. But no doubt it was good enough for people who wished to believe. So far, the King’s narrative is least out of keeping with probability. But had James been insulted, menaced, and driven to a personal struggle, as he declared?
The subject is good for a ballad or a novel, but history has nothing to make with the legend on which Mr. G. P. R. James based a romance, and Mr. Pinkerton a theory. Leaving fable for fact, what motives had James for killing both the Ruthvens? He had dropped the hereditary feud, and had taken no measures against the young Earl to punish his conspiracies with Bothwell in 1593–1594.
He also permitted himself more ease and freedom in that house a sort of intimacy sans façon even a certain jocularity. He also gave himself the privilege of inviting the Ruthvens on board the Niobrara; and Ruthven went, furious at being forced to stamp with his open approval an episode which made Neergard a social probability.
Suppose that men like the Ruthvens, great and potent nobles, had secretly invited their retainer, Andrew Henderson, to take the rôle of the armed man in the turret, what could Henderson have done? Such proposals as this were a danger dreaded even by the most powerful.
She had arrived the previous night, and while the rector was penning his letter she was holding Anna's hand in hers, and, running her eye rapidly over her face and form, was making an inventory of her charms and calculating their value. A very graceful figure, neither too short nor too tall. This she gets from the Ruthvens.
I believe you used to be very intimate with them both," said Mrs Grove, "and there has hardly been any intercourse since Fanny's marriage. I have often wondered at and regretted it." "Have you?" said Graeme, coldly. "We have had little intercourse with many old friends since then." "Oh! yes, I daresay, but the Ruthvens are very different from most of your old friends, and worth the keeping.
It is very important, we must freely admit, as an argument against the theory of carrying James to Logan’s impregnable keep of Fastcastle, that only one question, in our papers, is asked as to the provisioning of Fastcastle, and that merely as to the supply of drink! That was commonly regarded as a harmless constitutional practice, not justifying the slaughter of the Ruthvens.
The narrator argues, as all the friends of the Ruthvens did, that, if Gowrie had intended any treason, his men would not have been busy at their houses with preparations for an instant removal. The value of this objection is null. If Gowrie had a plot, it probably was to carry the King to Dirleton with him, in disguise.
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