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1 5 6 9- 1 ENGLISH PAR TIES. 35 Lord Boyd were settled a few miles distant at Burton, to carry on her correspondence and to keep up her dilTer- ent intrigues, while Herries returned to Scotland, where Murray was trying to compose the distracted elements into which he had been flung. Mary Stuart did not make his work more easy for him : besides her first fierce letter, she had written on the 3oth of January to the Archbishop of St Andrews, telling him to watch Murray closely, to fear nothing and listen to no per- suasion, and if Murray struck, to strike in return. 1 The spirit however on both sides proved conciliatory- Cha- telherault had been frightened by Elizabeth's words to him, and Herries was in Norfolk's secret, and was will- ing to acquiesce in the arrangements which the Duke had talked over with the Regent. On the I3th of March a partial convention met at Glasgow, where the outlines of a general settlement were proposed and agreed to. The Hamiltons undertook to submit to the Regency, if their forfeitures were cancelled, if they were allowed a place in the council, and if the" other side would con- sider of measures for the return of the Queen. The meeting passed off quietly, and it was arranged that the Lords should reassemble in six weeks at Edinburgh. Argyle and Huntly would then be present, and the con- ditions could be finally determined on which Scotland was for the future to be governed. So far things promised well, but a war with France would throw all again into confusion. It was now to 1 Mary Stuart to the Archbishop of St Andrews, January 30 : LA- BANOFF, Vol. ii.