20 Jan
2010
20 Jan
'10
10:40 p.m.
James VI and the Gowrie Mystery, by Andrew Lang 31033 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/0/3/31033 ] [Files: 31033.txt; 31033-0.txt; 31033-h.htm] For those wishing to know: "An old Scottish lady, four generations ago, used to say, 'It is a great comfort to think that, at the Day of Judgment, we shall know the whole truth about the Gowrie Conspiracy at last.'" Lang's painstaking investigation of what happened on 5th August 1600 when King James VI went to to Gowrie House, and why at the end of the day both Gowrie brothers lay dead. All the best, David, England, it should be snowing but it's just cold, wet and drizzling