The Fintry rising of 1592 was a minor but revealing episode in the Catholic conspiracy years. Robert Graham of Fintry, a known Catholic sympathiser in Perthshire, was involved in the Spanish Blanks correspondence and attempted to organise armed Catholic resistance in central Scotland to support the northern earls. The rising failed to materialise as a coherent military force, but Graham's arrest and the papers seized from him revealed the full extent of the Catholic earls' conspiracy with Spain. Fintry's case illustrated how the Catholic network extended beyond the Gordon northeast into the Perthshire gentry.
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