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{105a} Calderwood, vi. 98.

{105b} _Ibid._ vi. 130.

{107a} Calderwood, vi. 147.

{107b} _Ibid._ vi. 156.

{110} Mr. Bruce appears to have gone to France in 15991600, to call Gowrie home. In a brief account of his own life, dictated by himself at about the age of seventy (1624), he says, 'I was in France for the calling of the _Master_' (he clearly means _Earl_) 'of Gowrie' (Wodrow's 'Life of the Rev. Robert Bruce,' p. 10, 1843). Calderwood possessed, and Wodrow (_circ._ 1715) acquired, two 'Meditations' by Mr. Bruce of August 3, 4, 1600. Wodrow promises to print them, but does not, and when his book was edited in 1843, they could not be found. He says that 'Mr.

Bruce appears to have been prepared, in Providence,' for his Gowrie troubles, judging (apparently) by these 'Meditations.' But Mr. Henry Paton has searched for and found the lost 'Meditations' in MS., which are mere spiritual outpourings. Wodrow's meaning is therefore obscure. Mr.

Bruce had great celebrity as a prophet, but where Wodrow found prophecy in the 'Meditations' of August 3, 4, 1600, is not apparent (Wodrow's 'Bruce,' pp. 83, 84. Wodrow MSS., Advocates' Library, vol. xliv. No.

35).

{111} Calderwood, vi. 49, 6676.

{114} Pitcairn, ii. 196.

{118} Bain, _Calendar_, ii. 350; Nau, p. 59.

{121a} _Form of certain Devices_, &c. See _Papers relating to William_, _Earl of Gowrie_, London, 1867, pp. 2529.

{121b} Form of examination and death of William, Earl of Gowrie.

British Museum, Caligula, c. viii. fol. 23.

{126} Thorpe, _Calendar_, ii. 650

{127a} _De Natione Anglica et Scota Juristarum Universitatis Patavinae_ Io. Aloys. Andrich. Patavii, 1892, pp. 172, 173.

{127b} Ottavio Baldi to the King, June 22, 1609. Record Office.

Venice, No. 14, 16081610. See _infra_, Appendix A, 'Gowrie's Arms and Ambitions.'

{128a} Gowrie's letters of 1595 are in Pitcairn.

{128b} State Papers, Scotland (Elizabeth), vol. lxiii. No. 85.

G. Nicolson to Sir Robert Cecil.

Edinborough, 25 December, 1598.

'I heare Gowry is become a papist. But the K. takes little care to this, And yet sure it importes him most to se to it, vnlest he accompt otherwais of it than he hath cause, except he haue other pollicy than I will conjecture.' Compare Galloway's sermon, in Pitcairn, ii. 249, and _A Short Discourse_, ii. 231, 232.

{129a} Simancas, iv. pp. 653, 654, 677, 680, 715.

{129b} Compare note, p. 110, _supra_.

{130a} _Winwood Memorials_, pp. 1, 156. Hudson to Cecil. State Papers, Scotland (Elizabeth), vol. lxvi. No. 19.

{130b} _Border Calendar_, vol. ii. May 29, 1600. Carey to Cecil.

{131a} The whole proceedings are printed in Arnot's _Criminal Trials_.