James VI and the Gowrie mystery . e night ofAugust 5, and to which he adhered under Brucescross-examination, is infinitely the least Master of Gray, an abominable character, notin Scotland when the events occurred, reported, notfrom Scotland, that Lennox had said that, if put onhis oath, he could not say whether the practiceproceeded from Gowrie or the King. (Sept. 30,1600.) The Master of Gray wrote from Chillingham, onthe English side of the Border, where he was playingthe spy for Cecil. Often he played the double spy,for England and for Rome. Lennox may well havebeen puzzled,
James VI and the Gowrie mystery . e night ofAugust 5, and to which he adhered under Brucescross-examination, is infinitely the least Master of Gray, an abominable character, notin Scotland when the events occurred, reported, notfrom Scotland, that Lennox had said that, if put onhis oath, he could not say whether the practiceproceeded from Gowrie or the King. (Sept. 30,1600.) The Master of Gray wrote from Chillingham, onthe English side of the Border, where he was playingthe spy for Cecil. Often he played the double spy,for England and for Rome. Lennox may well havebeen puzzled, he may have said so, but the reportrests on the evidence of one who did not hearhis words, who wished to flatter the scepticism ofJamess English enemies, and whose character(though on one point he is unjustly accused) reekswith infamy. That of James does not precisely smell sweetand blossom in the dust. But if the question arises,whether a man of Jamess position, age, and tempera-ment, or whether a young man, with the antecedents. POPULAK CEITICISM OF THE DAY 117 which we are about to describe, was the more likelyto embark on a complicated and dangerous plot—inJamess case involving two murders at inestimablepersonal risk—it is not unnatural to think that theyoung man is the more likely to have the wyte ofit. 118 THE GOWRIE MYSTERY XITHE KING AND THE RUTH YENS HAVING criticised the contemporary criticism of theGowrie affair, we must look back, and examine thenature of Gowries ancestral and personal rela-tions with James before the day of calamity. Therewere grounds enough for hatred between the King c c* *— and the Earl, whether such hatred existed or not, ina kind of hereditary feud, and in political against Jamess grandmother, Mary of Guise,the grandfather of Gowrie, Lord Euthven, had earlyjoined the Eeformers, who opposed her in , in 1566, it was Gowries grandfather who tookthe leading part in the murder of Eiccio. He fledto England, and there d
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