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CHAPTER II.
CONTENTS.
Mr. David Calderwood. The Earl arrives at Edinburgh.
The King's ungracious behaviour. Character of the Queen.
The Earl gives offence, by opposing the King. Arrives at
Perth. His Character. Goes to Strathbraan. The King
invites him to hunt at Falkland. The Earl refuses. The
Court at Falkland. A Court Anecdote of the Queen and
Mr. Alexander Ruthven. Mr. Alexander Ruthven leaves
Falkland. Anecdote of Dr. Herries and Lady Beatrix
Ruthven. Preparations for executing a Plot against the
Earl and his brother Alexander.
In continuing my account of John Earl of Gowrie,
I am to rely much on the authority of Calderwood's
imprinted History of the Church of Scotland ; and
will also make use of the two MSS. which I men-
tioned in my List of Tracts on the Gowrie Con-
spiracy ; to the first of which 1 gave the name or
the Edinburgh MS. and to the other, though I am
not certain who the author was, I gave the name
of Stewart's Collections.

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History of the life and death of John, Earl of Gowrie
DescriptionBy the Rev. James Scott, vice-president of the Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth, and late senior minister of that city. Edinburgh : Printed by Balfour & Clarke, and sold by William Blackwood, 1818.
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DescriptionA selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916.