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1565.] THE DARN LEY MARRIAGE. 341 He wrote shortly to the English council to say that in reliance on the message brought him by Sir Robert Melville he had encouraged his friends to persevere in resistance at a time when they could have made their peace ; and through * their Queen's cold dealing ' both he and they were now forced to enter England. If there was an intention of helping them he begged that it might be done at once, and that Scotland might be saved from ruin. 1 By the same messenger he wrote more particularly to Cecil : ' He did not doubt,' he said, ' that Cecil under- stood fully the motives both of himself and his friends ; they had enterprised their action with full foresight of their sovereign's indignation, being moved thereto by the Queen of England and her council's hand writ directed to them thereupon ; ' the ' extremities ' had followed as they expected ; the Queen of Scots would now agree to 110 condition, relying on the Queen of England's ' coldness : ' he was told that the Queen's Majesty's conscience was not resolved to make open war without further motive and occasion ; the Queen's Majesty was perfectly aware ' that he had undertaken nothing for any particularity of his own, but for good affection to follow her own counsel ; her Majesty had been the furtherer and the doer, and he with the other noblemen had assisted therein to their power.' 2 Nor were the lords contented with written protests : they were determined to hear from Elizabeth's own lips 1 Murray to the Council, October 14 : Scotch MSS. JRolls House. 2 Murray to Cecil, October 14: MS. Ibid.