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Updated: June 3, 2025
On June 27 James made his escape, "a free king," to the castle of St Andrews: he proclaimed an amnesty and feigned reconciliation with his captor, the Earl of Gowrie, chief of the house so hateful to Mary the Ruthvens. At the same time James placed himself in friendly relations with his kinsfolk, the Guises, the terror of Protestants.
We hear, in the evidence, of no other doors, or of no other locked doors. However, in the Latin indictment of the Ruthvens, ‘many doors’ are insisted on. Leaving this point, we ask why a man already suspicious, like James, let the Master lock any door behind him.
In England it is quite safe to accuse a dead man of murder, or of what you please, as far as the Duchess understood the law of libel, so she had no legal remedy. The singular events called 'The Gowrie Conspiracy, or 'The Slaying of the Ruthvens, fell out, on evidence which nobody disputes, in the following manner.
Annie could not bear to hear this. She desired Helsa to assist Lady Carse to bed, that her clothes might be speedily dried, in readiness for any sudden chance of escape. Dull and sad was the first meal at the Ruthvens' the next morning. Lady Carse could eat nothing, having cried herself ill, and being in feverish expectation still of some news she did not know what.
The man in the turret had vanished like a ghost. Henderson, on the day after the tragedy, was also not to be found. Like certain Ruthvens, Hew Moncrieff, Eviot, and others, who had fought in the death-chamber, or been distinguished in the later riot, Henderson had fled.
Therefore the two Ruthvens plotted to get him into their hands early in the day; and, when he arrived late, with a considerable train, they endeavoured to send these gentlemen after the king, by averring that he had ridden homewards. The dead Ruthvens with their house were forfeited.
I want only what is rightfully coming to me." "There is nothing coming to you by right. The property ought to go to Marion and the other Ruthvens." "By other Ruthvens I suppose you mean yourself." "I am one of them." "Are you so anxious to get hold of my aunt's plantation?" "I don't want to see my aunt waste it on such a low upstart as you!" Jack's eyes flashed fire, and riding close to St.
For some reason, Bruce’s real point, that he was satisfied of the King’s innocence of a plot, but not satisfied as regards his yielding to passion when attacked, is ignored by the advocates of the Ruthvens. Mr.
"Boys, we may have some hot work to do," said the young captain. "I expect everybody to do his best. I trust there is no coward among us." "Not a bit of it!" came back in a shout. "We aint no St. John Ruthvens," whispered one of the young soldiers, but loud enough for a dozen or more to hear. "That's so," answered another.
"Well, you see, da aint persackly brother an' sister." "No?" and the surgeon raised his heavy eyebrows as if in surprise. "No, sah. Massah Jack is only de 'dopted son ob de late colonel." "Ah, is that really so? A er nephew, perhaps?" "No, he aint no kin to de Ruthvens. He was washed ashoah from a wrack ten or 'leben years ago.
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