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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XV. The Gowrie CONSPIRACY.1 SCOTLAND under the Stewarts was anything but a peaceful kingdom, and its people were anything but law-abiding. Its administration was not characterised by integrity, but rather by corruption, immorality, and crime. Allegiance to the throne was disregarded in high quarters when any great scheme was afloat, and the effect of this was destructive of loyalty and of the general safety, and calculated to keep the people in constant excitement. Conspiracies were common, and the lives of the lieges were never absolutely free from danger. The conspiracy of Robert Graham and the Earl of Atholl against the life of James I. was an inexcusable and treacherous act, in which the lives of all three were sacrificed. The conspiracies against Riccio and against Darnley were equally inexcusable, and attended with much greater loss of life; while the conspiracy against the Queen of Scots was carried on for nineteen years, and culminated not only in her execution, but in the wholesale execution of a large number of the nobility and people. In the reign of James VI. the conspiracy against him by William, Lord Ruthven, and his followers, lasted for upwards of ten months, and 1 See more fully the author's Gowrie Conspiracy and its Official Narrative. VOL. II. 65 B some years afterwards what is known as the Gowrie Conspiracy followed suit. These do not exhaust the list, but they unfold the spirit of the times. Such plots had one object only, and that was the aggrandisement of the men by whom they were put forward. The condition of Scotland was pitiable. It was financially in a state of chronic bankruptcy, and the English monarch was its chief creditor. The general poverty and insecurity were shown in some of the sieges of Perth, the Ancient Capital, when...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458812476
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 116
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458812472
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 222 gr


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