Christie, porter at Gowrie House on the fatal day, 21 Clerk, Father Andrew (Jesuit), intriguing against James, 201, 212 Coat of arms, Gowrie’s, 245 _et seq._ Colville, John, tells Cecil of Gowrie’s summons to be leader of the Kirk, 129; schemes against James, 140, 146, 155; renounces Frank Bothwell, 198 Corsar, John, cited, 211 Cowper, Rev. Mr. (minister of Perth), on Gowrie’s views as to secrecy in plots, 144 Craigengelt (Gowrie’s steward), his evidence regarding the Master’s ride to Falkland, 44; observation of the Master while the King dines, 49; at the dinner, 65, 83, 84; his confession before execution, 103, 104; denial of receipt of letters from James to Gowrie, 134, 135 note; on the movements of the Gowries before the tragedy, 136; hanged, 87 Cranstoun of Cranstoun, Sir John, 154 Cranstoun Riddell, Laird of, (Logan’s father-in-law), 153 Cranstoun, Thomas (Gowrie’s equerry), his share in the transactions at Gowrie House which brought about the slaughter of the Ruthvens, 20, 21, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31; wounded by Ramsay, 74, 85; examined, tortured, tried, and hanged at Perth, 74, 87, 155; an outlawed rebel and adherent of Bothwell, 74 note, 155 Cranstoun, Wm. (Bothwellian), 155 Crockett, Willie, one of Sprot’s victims, 203; his account of Logan’s Yule at Gunnisgreen, 209 Cromarty, Lord, his defence of James in the Gowrie affair, 223; testifies to the finding of Sprot’s Letter IV, 224, 229 * * * * * DAVIDSON, Rev. M., cited, 249 Dirleton, Gowrie’s stronghold near North Berwick, 42, 43, 145 Doig, Watty, arrests Sprot, 162 Douglas, Archibald, the infamous traitor, 140; his intimacy with Logan, 154, 155, 157 Douglas, Archibald, of Glenbervie, 248 Douglas, Archibald (son of Douglas of Glenbervie), student at Padua, 126, 248 Douglas of Spot, 140, 156 Douglas, Sir Robert, and the Gowrie emblem in Padua, 127, 246, 247, 248, 251 Drummond of Inchaffray, at Gowrie House when the Ruthvens were killed, 19, 24, 43; letter from James, 134, 135 Dunbar, Earl of, his humane treatment of Sprot, 163, 170; Sprot’s confession forwarded to him, 182; in debt to Logan, 211 Dunfermline, Earl of, and the preachers, 102; opposes James’s demands for money, 131; present at Sprot’s examinations, 201, 210 * * * * * EASTER WEMYSS, Laird of, opposes James’s demands for money, 131 Elizabeth, Queen, 11; receives, through Preston, James’s account of the Gowrie affair, 96; seeks to purchase the Casket Letters from Gowrie’s father, 240; said to have granted to Gowrie the guard and honours of a Prince of Wales, 248 Elphinstone (Lord Balmerino), Secretary of the Privy Council, in receipt of James’s narrative of the Gowrie plot, 38; denies discrepancies alleged by the preachers in the report of the tragedy, 102 Erskine, Sir Thomas, his share in the Gowrie slaughter, 19, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 51, 59, 74, 85, 139 Erskine (Sir Thomas’s brother), his part in the tragedy, 26, 27, 28, 29