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A02764	The examinations, arraignment & conuiction of George Sprot, notary in Aye-mouth together with his constant and extraordinarie behauiour at his death, in Edenborough, Aug. 12. 1608. Written & set forth by Sir William Hart, Knight, L. Iustice of Scotland. Whereby appeareth the treasonable deuice betwixt Iohn late Earle of Gowry and Robert Logane of Restalrig (commonly called Lesterig) plotted by them for the cruell murthering of our most gracious Souereigne. Before which treatise is prefixed also a preface, written by G. Abbot Doctour of Diuinitie, and Deane of Winchester, who was present at the sayd Sprots execution.	Hart, William, Sir, Lord Justice of Scotland.; Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1608 (1608)	STC 12894; ESTC S118749	27,055	64

scandalous imputations if men would not speake or children sound out the trueth in the streets yet the verie stones shall crie as our Sauiour once answered to the maligning Pharisees Blessed be the GOD of iustice who cleereth vp the fame of his holy ones when malice would obscure it Lastly heere may be a warning to men of mine owne profession I meane the Ministers of the Gospell that in cases of highest nature between a King and his rebell they conceiue not things to the woorst and because they will be opposite to him whom most of all they should honor by buzzings and whisperings and secret suggestions without all ground of trueth labour to sow sedition in the eares of women and children or in the mindes of men either weake or ill disposed For as the lips of the Priest should alwayes preserue knowledge so should they preserue trueth And we are to go before our flocks and Congregations in obedience and obsequiousnesse vnto the Christian Magistrate not in sowing sedition or making of mutinies to the disturbance of the State Who should sticke closer to Moyses welding so huge a charge than Aaron and his tribe And who should rather labour to doe his Prince all right than the Minister of the Gospell who next after teaching men their dutie to GOD is made to teach obedience and respectiuenesse vnto Kings And who more deserueth to be chastised than he if he wilfully transgresse These things I thought not amisse to obserue to thee Christian Reader before thou come to the perusing of this plaine and true narration touching the examination arraignment and death of the person here described GOD Almightie blesse the Kings Maiestie grant vnto him many dayes full of pietie and felicitie and after this mortall life expired send him an euerlasting Crown of glorie through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Thine in the Lord GEORGE ABBOT THE EXAMINATIONS ARRAIGNMENT AND Conuiction of George Sprot Notary in Aye-mouth Together with his constant and extraordinarie behauior at his death in Edenborough August 12. 1608. Written and set forth by Sir William Hart Knight L. Iustice of Scotland Whereby appeareth the treasonable deuice betweene IOHN late Earle of Gowrie and Robert Logane of Restalrig commonly called Lesterig plotted by them for the cruell murthering of our most gracious Souereigne I Thought good gentle Reader for satisfaction of the true hearted and well affected subiects to their gracious Souereigne and closing of the mouthes of his Maiesties malicious enemies to spend a little time in discourse of a strange and almost miraculous accident that fell out of late anent the reuealing of the practises of Gowries treasonable Conspiracie intended against his Highnesse royall person Which purpose was hidden and concealed vntill the time it pleased God to moue one George Sprot who was priuie thereto to manifest and confesse the same as by this that followeth may appeare This Sprot after diuers examinations being moued with remorse of conscience for the long concealing of the foreknowledge of this treasonable conspiracie confesseth declareth and deponeth with the perill of his owne life That he knew perfectly that Robert Logane late of Restalrig was priuie and vpon the foreknowledge of Gowries treasonable conspiracie And for the greater assurance of his knowledge deponeth That he knew that there were diuers Letters interchanged betwixt them anent the treasonable purpose aforesayd in the beginning of the Moneth of Iuly 1600. Which letters Iames Bour called Laird Bour seruitor to Restalrig who was imployed mediatour betwixt them and priuy to all that errand had in keeping and shewed the same to Sprot in the place of Fast-Castle The first of Gowries Letters conteining in effect as followeth Good Laird of Restalrig you vnderstand what conditions should haue beene betwixt vs of before Indeed I purposed to haue come by your house but vnderstanding of your absence in Lothiane I came not Alwayes I wish you either your selfe to come West or els to send some sure messenger who may conferre with mee anent the purpose you know But rather would I wish your selfe to come not only for that errand but for some other thing that I haue to aduise with you To the which Letter Restalrig wrate an answer and sent the same to the Earle of Gowrie by the said Iames Bour of the tenure following MY Lord my most humble dutie and seruice heartily remembred At the receit of your Lordships Letter I am so comforted that I can neither vtter my ioy nor finde my selfe sufficiently able to requite your Lordship with due thanks And perswade your Lordship in that matter I shall be as forward for your Lordships honour as if it were mine owne cause And I thinke there is no liuing Christian that would not be content to reuenge that Machiauellian massacring of our deare friends yea howbeit it should be to venture and hazzard life lands and all other thing els My heart can binde me to take part in that matter as your Lordship shall finde better proofe thereof But one thing would be done namely That your Lordship should be circumspect and earnest with your brother that hee be not rash in any speeches touching the purpose of Padua My Lord you may easily vnderstand that such a purpose as your Lordship intendeth can not be done rashly but with deliberation And I thinke for my selfe that it were most meet to haue the men your Lordship spake of readie in a boat or barke and addresse them as if they were taking pastime on the sea in such faire Summer time And if your Lordship could thinke good either your selfe to come to my house of Fast-Castle by sea or to send your brother I should haue the place very quiet and well prouided after your Lordships aduertisement where we should haue no scant of the best Venison can be had in England And no others should haue accesse to haunt the place during your Lordships being heere but all things very quiet And if your Lordship doubt of safe landing I shall prouide all such necessaries as may serue for your Lordships arriuall within a flight shot of the house And perswade your Lordship you shall be as sure and quiet heere while we haue setled our plot as if you were in your owne chamber for I trust and am assured we shall heare word within few dayes from them your Lorship knoweth of for I haue care to see what ships comes home by Your Lordship knoweth I haue kept the L. Bothwell quietly in this house in his greatest extremitie say both King and Counsell what they liked I hope if all things come to passe as I trust they shall to haue both your Lordship and his Lordship at one good dinner afore I die Haeciocosè to animate your Lordship I doubt not my Lord but all things shall be well And I am resolued wherof your Lordship shall not doubt of any thing on my part yea to perill life land honor and goods yea the hazzard of hell shall not

many teares after the prayer affirmed this his deposition to be true and for the confirmation thereof declared that he would seale the same with his blood And the next day thereafter being the twelfth of the foresaid moneth of August the said George was brought forth and presented in iudgement vpon pannell within the Towlebewth of Edenborough before Sir William Hart of Preston his Maiestis Iustice and there in a fenced Court holden by him that day assisted by the honourable persons following his Assessors in that errand They are to say Alexander Earle of Dumfermling L. Chanceller George Earl of Dunbar Treasurer Iohn Archbishop of Glascow Dauid Bishop of Rosse Gawin Bishop of Galloway Andrew Bishop of Brechine Dauid Earle of Crawford Marke Earle of Lothiane Iohn L. Abirnethy of Saltoun Iames L. of Balmerinoth Secretarie Walter L. Blantyre Iohn L. Halyrudehouse Michael L. Burley Sir Richard Cokburne of Clarkintoun Knight M. Iohn Preston of Fenton Barnes Collector Generall Sir Iohn Skeyne of Currhil Knight Clerke of Register was delated accused and pursued by Sir Thomas Hamilton of Binning Knight Aduocate to our Souereigne Lord for his Highnesse Entries of the crimes conteined in his Inditement produced by the said Aduocate whereof the tenure followeth GEorge Sprot Notarie in Aye-mouth You are indited and accused forsomuch as Iohn sometime Earle of Gowrie hauing most cruelly detestably and treasonably conspired in the moweth of Iuly the yeere of God 1600 yeeres to murther our deare and most gratious Souereigne the Kings most excellent Maiestie And hauing imparted that diuellish purpose to Robert Logane of Restalrig who allowed of the same and most willingly and readily vnder tooke to be partaker thereof The same comming to your knowledge at the times and in the maner particularly after specified you most vnnaturally maliciously and treasonably concealed the same and was arte and part thereof in maner following In the first in the said moneth of Iuly six-hundred yeres after you had perceiued and knowen that diuers letters and messages had past betwixt the said sometime Earle of Gowrie and the said Robert Logane of Restalrig you being in the house of Fast-Castle you saw and read a letter written by the said Robert Logane of Restalrig with his owne hand to the said Iohn sometime Earle of Gowrie of the tenure following MY Lord my most humble dutie and seruice heartily remembred At the receit of your Lordships Letter I am so comforted that I can neither vtter my ioy nor finde my selfe sufficiently able to requite your Lordship with due thanks And perswade your Lordship in that matter I shall be as forward for your Lordships honour as if it were mine owne cause And I thinke there is no liuing Christian that would not be content to reuenge that Machiauellian massacring of our deare friends yea howbeit it should be to venture and hazzard life lands and all other thing els My heart can binde me to take part in that matter as your Lordship shall finde better proofe thereof But one thing would be done namely That your Lordship should be circumspect and earnest with your brother that hee be not r●sh in any speeches touching the purpose of Padua And a certaine space after the execution of the aforesaid treason the said Robert Logane of Restalrig hauing desired the Laird of Bour to deliuer to him the foresaid letter or els to burne it And Bour hauing giuen to you all tickets and letters which he then had either concerning Restalrig or others to see the same because he could not reade himselfe you abstracted the aboue written letter and reteined the same in your owne hands and diuers times read it conteining farther in substance nor is formerly set downe according to the words following My Lord you may easily vnderstand that such a purpose as your Lordship intendeth can not be done rashly but with deliberation And I thinke for my selfe that it were most meet to haue the men your Lordship spake of readie in a boat or barke and addresse them as if they were taking pastime on the sea in such faire Summer time And if your Lordship could thinke good either your selfe to come to my house of Fast-Castle by sea or to send your brother I should haue the place very quiet and well prouided after your Lordships aduertisement where we should haue no scant of the best Venison can be had in England And no others should haue accesse to haunt the place during your Lordships being heere but all things very quiet And if your Lordship doubt of safe landing I shall prouide all such necessaries as may serue for your Lordships arriuall within a flight shot of the house And perswade your Lordship you shall be as sure and quiet heere while we haue setled our plot as if you were in your owne chamber for I trust and am assured we shall haue word within few dayes from them your Lordship knoweth of for I haue care to see what ships comes home by Your Lordship knoweth I haue kept the L. Bothwell quietly in this house in his greatest extremitie say both King and Counsell what they liked I hope if all things come to passe as I trust they shall to haue both your Lordship and his Lordship at one good dinner afore I die Haeciocosè to animate your Lordship I doubt not my Lord but all things shall be well And I am resolued wherof your Lordship shall not doubt of any thing on my part yea to perill life land honor and goods yea the hazzard of hell shall not affray me from that yea although the scaffold were alreadie set vp The sooner the matter were done it were the better for the Kings bucke-hunting will be shortly and I hope it shall prepare some daintie cheere for vs to dine against the next yeere I remember well my Lord and I will neuer forget so long as I liue that merrie sport which your Lordships brother tolde me of a Noble man at Padua for I thinke that a parasceue to this purpose My Lord thinke nothing that I commit the secrecy hereof and credit to this bearer for I dare not only venture my life lands and all other things I haue els on his credit but I durst hazzard my soule in his keeping if it were possible in earthly men for I am so perswaded of his truth and fidelitie And I trow as your Lordship may aske him if it be true he would goe to hell gates for mee and hee is not beguiled of my part to him And therefore I doubt not but this will perswade your Lordship to giue him trust in this matter as to my selfe But I pray your Lordship direct him home with all possible haste and giue him strait command that he take not a wincke sleepe while hee see me againe after hee come from your Lorship And as your Lordship desireth in your letter to me either riue or burne or els send backe againe with the bearer for so is the fashion I grant Which