After Elizabeth: The Death of Elizabeth and the Coming of King James

* (#ulink_fb9d14e5-355e-5239-bded-cf92231960d0) The dialect of northern English spoken in the south and north-east of Scotland. This was not the uneducated brogue some English appeared to think, but rather the language of some of the most beautiful poetry of the day.

* (#ulink_79659431-210c-5d3b-842e-45d62409240c) The improvement followed the employment of a committee of eight Exchequer auditors known as the Octavians. They had taken control of all areas of royal finance and reduced James’s handouts to courtiers. A group of disappointed courtiers had, unsurprisingly, united in determination to get rid of them and James had eventually done so – but for a price. The legislation he had sought to encourage the resolution of feuds through the royal courts was passed in June 1598 and with it the tradition of the feud began to die out.

† (#ulink_9d97ac75-c1e6-52b6-b083-f607d1bf7316) John Gowrie’s elder brother, James, the second Earl, died in 1588.

* (#ulink_4368783c-ce4f-5e36-b5c8-be3c3e2fe733) It is notable that one of Gowrie’s first actions in Scotland had been to oppose James’s proposal to raise the taxes to pay for an army in the Scots parliament.

* (#ulink_9ed3d480-9a0f-5332-90cf-aae97232f166) The latter was to be made Lord of Kinloss on 22 February 1603, a mark of his continued importance.

* (#ulink_0df160e0-1d24-573d-8056-e1cb98c5a904) The origin of Shrewsbury and Stanhope’s enmity was a long-running dispute over whether the Stanhopes had a right to build a weir on the River Trent. Such questions were considered matters of honour as they reflected on a family’s status within their county and the argument had run to bloodshed on more than one occasion. The most recent incident had taken place in 1599. Stanhope and a band of twenty armed and mounted men had attacked Mary Shrewsbury’s favourite brother, Charles Cavendish, his two attendants and his page. Cavendish and his men had fought off Stanhope’s party, killing two or three of their assailants and wounding two others, but Cavendish had been left injured with a bullet in the thigh. Even in Elizabethan England, where duels and brawls were commonplace, such an incident was scandalous, but the hatred it created clearly had its uses to Cecil.