Humphrey Dethick

Humphrey Dethick (an haife shi a shekara ta 1577) ɗan kasuwa ne na Ingila a yankin Italiya wanda ya kashe wani mutum a Scotland a shekara ta 1602 yayin baftisma na sarauta.

 Ayyuka 
Shi ɗan William Dethick ne da matarsa Helen, na Smithston a Derbyshire . Ya tafi makaranta a Ashbourne, sannan ya kasance a takaice a Cambridge. Dethick ya ce mahaifinsa mutum ne wanda ya sayar da gadonsa ga wani dan London mai suna Storie . Daga nan sai ya tafi teku, ya dauki kyaututtuka na Faransanci da Mutanen Espanya tare da Kyaftin Clegmond . Bayan wannan ya yi aiki ga Richard May, mai sayarwa na London da mai zane-zane a Watling Street. Ɗan'uwansa Edward Dethick mutum ne mai siliki a Landan.

Baptist Hicks ya yi amfani da shi a matsayin abin da ya sa a Italiya. Hicks ya yi amfani da Dalili don tabbatar da ingancin masana'antun da ya shigo da su. A Florence wata karuwa ta gabatar da Dethick ga Lorenzo Lucenbardis (Usimbardi), sakataren Ferdinando I de 'Medici, Babban Duke na Tuscany. A Scotland, Dethick yana da "mai cinyewa", a bayyane yake lu'u-lu'u, wanda Usimbardi ya ba shi. Ya shiga ciki rikici na jigilar kaya wanda ya kai ga hankalin Sir Robert Cecil. Dethick ya bar Italiya ya yi tafiya ta Faransa kuma ya ɗauki jirgin ruwa zuwa Leith. Ya yi tunanin zuwa Turkiyya daga Faransa kuma ya rubuta wa Sir Thomas Shirley, mai ba da labari wanda ya shirya ya kai hari ga Daular Ottoman, amma wannan bai yi aiki ba. A Scotland yana fatan samun lasisin sarauta don fitar da fata zuwa Ireland kuma ya sami wadata. Roger Aston, wani dan majalisa na Ingila, ya gabatar da shi ga sarki.

 Kisan kai a Dunfermline 
Robert, ɗan James VI na Scotland da Anne ta Denmark an yi masa baftisma a ranar 2 ga Mayu 1602 a Fadar Dunfermline .  Kotun da baƙi sun taru a Dunfermline kafin taron, kuma ranar da za a yi baftisma Dethick ya kashe wani mutum mai suna James Chambers da rapier, kuma ya ji wa wasu masu kallo rauni, ciki har da mai aski wanda ke gyara gashin Chamber. A ranar da ta gabata Dethick ya damu kuma Roger Aston ya kwantar da shi. An yi tunanin cewa zai iya zuwa Scotland don kashe sarki.

An kama Dethick kuma an ɗaure shi. Ya yi kama da mahaukaci kuma likitocin kotu sun bincika shi, mai yiwuwa Martin Schöner da John Naysmyth, waɗanda suka bayyana cewa yana yaudarar hauka.[1] Dethick ya yi iƙirarin cewa ya ji annabci a Spain cewa ya kamata ya kashe wani. Thomas Douglas ya ji cewa mahaifinsa mai yin burodi ne a Landan, kuma za a azabtar da shi ta amfani da rack. An kai shi a matsayin fursuna zuwa Edinburgh Castle kuma ya yi iƙirarin ayyukansa sun fito ne daga "hauka na sha" kawai. An jinkirta shari'arsa saboda rashin lafiya na ɗan sarki Robert, kuma sarki ya kasance a Dunfermline. James ya yi jinkirin hukunta wani mutum daga Ingila wanda shi ma ya zama kamar bai dace da shari'a ba.[1]

Sir John Carey a Berwick-upon-Tweed ya ji cewa Dethick yana barci a cikin ɗakinsa a Dunfermline lokacin da wasu ciki har da wanda aka azabtar suka shiga cikin dakin don karɓar makamansa. An ɓoye cikakkun bayanai game da ikirarinsa, amma ya zama kamar Carey cewa Dethick ya ji daɗin ni'imar sarki. An ba da rahoton labarai game da abubuwan da suka faru a Landan, kuma John Chamberlain ya rubuta a ranar 17 ga Yuni,  "muna kuma magana da yawa game da Dethicke (wani lokaci ga Hickes a Cheapside a Florence) wanda ya kamata ya zo daga nan zuwa Scotland tare da niyyar kashe sarki, amma ba zai iya ɗaukar nauyin irin wannan kamfani ba kuma ya janye hankalinsa.   Robert Cecil da Sarauniya Elizabeth sun fara zargin Dethick ya shiga cikin wani makirci don kashe James VI, kuma sun aika wasiƙu da Dethick a Italiyanci zuwa Scotland. Dethick ya aika da takarda ga James VI yana cewa ya zo Scotland ne kawai don farfado da dukiyar iyalinsa na dā. Elizabeth ba ta son James VI ya kare Dethick wani tsananin tsanani saboda shi Ingilishi ne. A halin yanzu, a watan Yuni, lafiyar hankali ta Dethick ta ragu kuma ya tsage tufafinsa. James VI ya ba da wasiƙun Italiyanci ga David Foulis don fassarori.

Makomar Dethick ba a bayyane take ba. Labarin da aka yi masa a kurkuku ya kasance a yanzu a London, kuma a ranar 27 ga Yuni Philip Gawdy ya rubuta:

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