James VI and the Gowrie mystery

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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. xiv, 280, ff. [12] (plates). Signatures: [A]8 B-T8 [U-Y]8. Illustrations (some colored).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Work on the “Gowrie Conspiracy” of 1600: George Sprot was executed for admitting that certain letters ‘proving’ that Sir Robert Logan had conspired with the Earl of Gowrie to murder James VI in 1600 were in fact forged. Sprot himself was presumably the forger. See also Bib# 4102838/Fr# 294 in this collection.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1730834" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>