Copy of Newsletter from Edinburgh, August 11, 1600 [manuscript], 17th century?

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Copy of Newsletter from Edinburgh, August 11, 1600 [manuscript], 17th century?

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/642834282

Letter about assault on King James VI, and the killing of Alexander Ruthven and his brother the Earl of Gowrie on Tuesday August 5, 1600.

Leaves 56-59.

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James I, King of England, 1566-1625

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James VI was born in Edinburgh Castle in 1566, the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband, Lord Darnley. As Mary was forced to abdicate shortly after his birth, he acceded to the Scottish throne as an infant and was brought up to be distanced from his mother. He was learned, taught by some of the best tutors available in the Scottish Humanist school, but also deeply superstitious, secretive and something of a misanthropist. He married Anne of Denmark in 1590, though ...

Gowrie, John Ruthven, Earl of, 1578?-1600

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Ruthven, Alexander, 1580?-1600

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