282 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 43. realm, or for the discontentation they have of the Queen's Majesty or her successors or of the succession of any other besides the Queen of Scots, shall be by this marriage erected, comforted, and induced to devise and labour how to bring their desires to pass ; and to make some estimate what persons these are, to the intent the quantity of the peril may be weighed, the same may be composed in these sorts either within the realm or without.
- The first are such as are especially devoted to the
Queen of Scots or the Lord Darnley by bond of blood and alliance as all the House of Lorraine and Guise for her part, and the Earl of Lennox and his wife with all such in Scotland as be of their blood there and have received displeasure by the Duke of Chatelherault and the Hamiltons.
- The second are all manner of persons both in this
realm and in other countries that are devoted to the authority of Rome and mislike of the religion here re- ceived ; and in these two sorts are the substance of them comprehended that shall take comfort in this marriage. ' Next therefore is to be considered what perils and troubles these kind of men shall intend to this realm. 1 The general scope and mark of all their designs is and always shall be to bring the Queen of Scots to have the royal crown of this realm ; and therefore though their devices may vary amongst themselves for the com- passing hereof, according to the accidents of the times, and according to the impediments which they shall find by means of the Queen's Majesty's actions and govern-
