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Let’s take a look at the Gowrie Conspiracy…
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Linked videos and playlists:
Gunpowder Plot: youtu.be/ZtELEQtqcSE
Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
James VI and I as a Youth by Arnold Bronckhorst or Adrian Vanson (1583). Held by Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries.
Photograph of Ruthven Castle now called Huntingtower, taken by Astrid Horn (2007).
Portrait of James I of England as James VI of Scotland by Adrian Vanson (1595). From Philip Mould Historical Portraits.
Photograph of Falkland Palace taken by Andrew Lang (1902).
Screenshot from google.com/maps/dir/Falkland+Palace+%26+Garden,+East+Port,+Falkland,+Cupar/56.3950047,-3.4265881/@56.1446166,-3.3850014,10z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x488649ff3f8486ef:0xc9774231ef7cb383!2m2!1d-3.2055822!2d56.2543259!1m0!3e2?entry=ttu
The Gowrie House in Perth c.1650 from The Book of Days by Robert Chambers (c.1870).
The Gowrie Conspiracy; engraving by Jan Luyken – King James is on the right. From F Maclean, “Highlanders, A History of the Highland Clans”, London (1995).
Quoted texts:
Jenny Wormald, ODNB entry on James VI and I.
The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), 1600/11/9 (rps.ac.uk/search.php?action=fetch_jump&filename=jamesvi_ms&jump=jamesvi_t1600_11_7_d4_trans&type=ms&fragment=m1600_11_28_d6_ms)
Amy L. Juhala, ODNB entry on Alexander Ruthven.
Also consulted, were:
"The English Thanksgiving Service for King James' Delivery from the Gowrie Conspiracy" by F. C. Eeles in The Scottish Historical Review , Jul., 1911, Vol. 8, No. 32 (Jul., 1911), pp. 366376.
"The Gowrie Conspiricy August 5th, 1600.(assassination attempt on James VI, King of Scotland)" by Richard Cavendish in History today, 2000-08, Vol.50 (8), p.52-52.
Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
#History #Stuart #Renaissance
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Let’s take a look at the Gowrie Conspiracy…
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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]
SFX from freesfx.co.uk/Default.aspx
Linked videos and playlists:
Gunpowder Plot: youtu.be/ZtELEQtqcSE
Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
James VI and I as a Youth by Arnold Bronckhorst or Adrian Vanson (1583). Held by Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries.
Photograph of Ruthven Castle now called Huntingtower, taken by Astrid Horn (2007).
Portrait of James I of England as James VI of Scotland by Adrian Vanson (1595). From Philip Mould Historical Portraits.
Photograph of Falkland Palace taken by Andrew Lang (1902).
Screenshot from google.com/maps/dir/Falkland+Palace+%26+Garden,+East+Port,+Falkland,+Cupar/56.3950047,-3.4265881/@56.1446166,-3.3850014,10z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x488649ff3f8486ef:0xc9774231ef7cb383!2m2!1d-3.2055822!2d56.2543259!1m0!3e2?entry=ttu
The Gowrie House in Perth c.1650 from The Book of Days by Robert Chambers (c.1870).
The Gowrie Conspiracy; engraving by Jan Luyken – King James is on the right. From F Maclean, “Highlanders, A History of the Highland Clans”, London (1995).
Quoted texts:
Jenny Wormald, ODNB entry on James VI and I.
The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), 1600/11/9 (rps.ac.uk/search.php?action=fetch_jump&filename=jamesvi_ms&jump=jamesvi_t1600_11_7_d4_trans&type=ms&fragment=m1600_11_28_d6_ms)
Amy L. Juhala, ODNB entry on Alexander Ruthven.
Also consulted, were:
"The English Thanksgiving Service for King James' Delivery from the Gowrie Conspiracy" by F. C. Eeles in The Scottish Historical Review , Jul., 1911, Vol. 8, No. 32 (Jul., 1911), pp. 366376.
"The Gowrie Conspiricy August 5th, 1600.(assassination attempt on James VI, King of Scotland)" by Richard Cavendish in History today, 2000-08, Vol.50 (8), p.52-52.
Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
#History #Stuart #Renaissance
