The Ruthven family papers [electronic resource] : the Ruthven version of the conspiracy and assassination at Gowrie House, Perth, 5th August, 1600 . hich were long concealed emerge to light,And controverted facts are rendered bright. So runs the translation of a Latin distich, at one 63 THE RUTHVEN FAMILY PAPERS time painted on a chimney brace in Ruthven P. R. James, an eminent writer, in his book,Gowrie or the Kings Plot, in a final chapterdealing with a general view of the subject, afterstating that he has not spared labour, research,and thought upon the work, says, in a concluding
The Ruthven family papers [electronic resource] : the Ruthven version of the conspiracy and assassination at Gowrie House, Perth, 5th August, 1600 . hich were long concealed emerge to light,And controverted facts are rendered bright. So runs the translation of a Latin distich, at one 63 THE RUTHVEN FAMILY PAPERS time painted on a chimney brace in Ruthven P. R. James, an eminent writer, in his book,Gowrie or the Kings Plot, in a final chapterdealing with a general view of the subject, afterstating that he has not spared labour, research,and thought upon the work, says, in a concludingparagraph, that the lady whom it was proposed theEarl should eventually marry was in reality theLady Margaret Douglas, daughter of the Earl ofAngus, but that there were rumours current, bothbefore and after the Earls death, of another morepowerful but secret attachment, which might prob-ably have frustrated the views of friends, under theinfluence of a stranger power. This branch of the Ruthven family, claimingdirect descent from John, third Earl of Gowrie, havealways used the Gowrie crest. (An old seal belong-ing to them is reproduced here.). The issue raised by this narrative from thearchives of one of the members of the Ruthvenfamily, and the direct reference to it practicallyconfirming it, by that eminent novelist, G. P. R. 64 > . 3 3 ?>
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