inside, he signalled to James Sandilands and other accomplices to break down the doors and carry her back to Gray, while Lord Home and his followers prevented rescuers. Catherine eventually married Sir John Hamilton of Lettrick. Intrigue and execution Logie was in London in March 1594. William Keith of Delny wrote to the Scottish resident agent in London, James Hudson, that both James VI and Anna of Denmark had told him that Logie had no diplomatic mission from them. In April 1594 James VI came to Rossend Castle in Fife to arrest those suspected of intrigue with Bothwell, including Logie and Archibald Wauchope of Niddrie. Logie gave himself up to the king and was released into the custody of his kinsman the Laird of Wester Wemyss. In August 1594 he was again implicated in Bothwell's rebellion and was arrested on his way to Stirling Castle for the banquet at the baptism of Prince Henry. He was imprisoned at Blackness Castle then in Edinburgh Castle, and threatened with execution. Margaret Vinstarr, now called "Lady Logie", went to Denmark or Holstein in June 1594 to see her family and returned to Scotland after a year in July 1595. Roger Aston heard she had been to see the queen's mother Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow and brought back the message that the queen ought to obey the king in all things. A stratagem of Theobalds Again the queen intervened for his life and he was released. He tried to gain favour at the English court. On 1 April 1595 the former court musician turned diplomat James Hudson wrote to Anthony Bacon about Logie. Logie had asked Archibald Douglas and Hudson himself to speak to Sir Robert Cecil to advance his suit to Queen Elizabeth. Cecil hesitated to do this because he knew that Logie had been Bothwell's ally. Helping Logie would anger James VI. Hudson was concerned that Logie would now approach the Earl of Essex. He wished that Bacon would acquaint Essex with a cause that may "smell a little of the stratagem of Theobalds". Hudson knew that Bacon would otherwise be reluctant to deny the request of "a gentlemen and a stranger" unless he were "well advertised" that Logie was "in practises". Logie wrote letters to Scotland with news of England, saying that he enjoyed Elizabeth's great favour. Roger Aston, a servant of the king's bedchamber, wrote to Hudson that this was disappointing