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INTRODUCTION
that he can only secure it by favour of the nobility, the greater
part of whom in both kingdoms are Catholics. On the other
hand, he sees his Presbyterian ministers are aiming at democracy,
and he therefore hates them. Although brought up among
Calvinists, he does not hold all their doctrines, and he might
easily be converted by an able and good man. He has shown
his goodwill towards the missionaries by setting free from prison
Father Morton, S. J. The Queen of England has sought by
means of certain English Catholics, e.g. Hugh Owen, to get
James excommunicated by the Pope; and she urges the King
to persecute, in order the more readily to gain her purpose.
Owen would not have dared to attempt this if he was not
backed by Spain. Ogilvy ends by insinuating his suspicions of
Dr. Cecil. This Cecil, he says, possesses middling abilities, but
is not honest. He is unfit to conduct the affairs of the King
of Scotland, especially for this reason, that he was sent upon
the mission from Spain by Father Parsons; and Father Parsons
is an enemy of James, as is evident from his book on the
Succession.
But while Ogilvy was thus treating with the Pope, in a
sense unfavourable to the Spanish policy, he was negotiating
on somewhat different lines with the Duke of Sesa, Philip’s
ambassador at Rome, visiting him by night for the sake of
secrecy. There were flitting about Rome at the same time,
under Spanish names, two other Scotsmen, agents of the
Catholic earls, Sir Walter Lindsay as Don Balthazar, and appar¬
ently Hugh Barclay of Ladyland as Don Ugo.1 The Duke of
Sesa was bewildered by the conflicting accounts of Scottish
affairs which were brought to him. He found too that Ogilvy
kept back from him matters which he had divulged to Cecil,
and that, on the other hand, he did not let Cecil know what
passed in his secret conferences with the Duke. Cecil was
1 Barclay of Ladyland in 1597 seized and fortified Ailsa Craig, was attacked
there by Andrew Knox, minister of Paisley, and put an end to his life by throw¬
ing himself into the sea.
that he can only secure it by favour of the nobility, the greater
part of whom in both kingdoms are Catholics. On the other
hand, he sees his Presbyterian ministers are aiming at democracy,
and he therefore hates them. Although brought up among
Calvinists, he does not hold all their doctrines, and he might
easily be converted by an able and good man. He has shown
his goodwill towards the missionaries by setting free from prison
Father Morton, S. J. The Queen of England has sought by
means of certain English Catholics, e.g. Hugh Owen, to get
James excommunicated by the Pope; and she urges the King
to persecute, in order the more readily to gain her purpose.
Owen would not have dared to attempt this if he was not
backed by Spain. Ogilvy ends by insinuating his suspicions of
Dr. Cecil. This Cecil, he says, possesses middling abilities, but
is not honest. He is unfit to conduct the affairs of the King
of Scotland, especially for this reason, that he was sent upon
the mission from Spain by Father Parsons; and Father Parsons
is an enemy of James, as is evident from his book on the
Succession.
But while Ogilvy was thus treating with the Pope, in a
sense unfavourable to the Spanish policy, he was negotiating
on somewhat different lines with the Duke of Sesa, Philip’s
ambassador at Rome, visiting him by night for the sake of
secrecy. There were flitting about Rome at the same time,
under Spanish names, two other Scotsmen, agents of the
Catholic earls, Sir Walter Lindsay as Don Balthazar, and appar¬
ently Hugh Barclay of Ladyland as Don Ugo.1 The Duke of
Sesa was bewildered by the conflicting accounts of Scottish
affairs which were brought to him. He found too that Ogilvy
kept back from him matters which he had divulged to Cecil,
and that, on the other hand, he did not let Cecil know what
passed in his secret conferences with the Duke. Cecil was
1 Barclay of Ladyland in 1597 seized and fortified Ailsa Craig, was attacked
there by Andrew Knox, minister of Paisley, and put an end to his life by throw¬
ing himself into the sea.
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| Description | Contents:The library of James VI. In the hand of Peter Young, his tutor, 1573-1583 / G.F. Warner -- Documents illustrating Catholic policy in the reign of James VI., 1596-1598 / Thomas Graves Law -- Twenty-four letters of Sir Thomas Hope, ... 1627-1646 / Robert Paul -- Civil war papers, 1643-1650 / H.F. Morland Simpson -- Thirty-four letters written to James Sharp, ... 1660-1677 / John Dowden -- The diary of George Turnbull, minister of Alloa and Tyninghame, 1657-1704 / Robert Paul -- The Masterton papers, 1660-1719 / V.A. Noël Paton -- Accompt of expenses in Edinburgh by Alexander Rose of Kilravock, 1715 / A.H. Millar -- Papers about the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 / Henry Paton -- General index -- Index to the library of James VI. |
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