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1583-1 THE JESUITS IN SCOTLAND. 329 she threatened to publish her wickednesses and her husband's horns to all the world. 1 Her exasperation vented itself on the Scots. She told them at first she could make no treaty unless their Queen was a party to it, and that as for money she would give them none. She had supposed, she said, that the gratitude for past kindness and conformity of creed would of itself have secured the King's goodwill towards her. She was sorry to see that sordid considerations had such weight with him. If he was in absolute want she would lend him a small sum, if the large towns and ' chosen persons of the nobility of both factions would be sureties for the repayment.' The Lennox succession was under ex- amination by lawyers, and the rents must remain se- questered till the right of aliens to inherit was decided. To the Lords who had risked life and fortune in the raid of Ruthven she refused to give anything at all. Col. Stewart reminded her, with some resentment, ' of the promises of help in men and money, which were made at the beginning of that action.' The guard, he said, had been maintained at Court by the confederate Lords solely to keep the English party in power. At least, he expected that she would allow them two months' wages. 2 1 ' La Reyna se encendio en la materia, de suerte que dixo que antes consentiria que el Key le quitase su corona que verle casado con hija de una loba, y cuando se hallase otio mcdio para reprimir su ambicion y del traydor Leicester, ella la publi- caria por tal mala muger por toda la X dad y los cuernos de su marido.' Don Bernardino al Key, n de Junio, 1583 : MSS. Simancas. 2 Stewart and Colville to Wal- singham, May 18 : MSS. Scotland.