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86 REIGN 1 OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 52. of Elizabeth's character at once returned to her. She broke off her progress, and went back on the spot to Windsor. Knowing well that if a rebellion was to break out the first move would be to carry off the Queen of Scots, doubting too, and as it seemed with reason, whether at such a moment she could trust the loyalty of Shrewsbury, 1 she despatched the Earl of Huntingdon, the one nobleman who, as a competitor for the succes- sion, Mary Stuart especially dreaded, with a commission to take charge of her. The Earl made such haste that within six days of Norfolk's departure, heedless alike of her threats and her lamentations, he had his prisoner safe again at Tutbury, with half her train left behind at Wingfield, and a garrison in the castle of 500 men. 2 Thus she was secure from any sudden enterprise ; while with rapid change of note, Sir Henry Carey carried proposals down to Scotland, not any more for her re- storation, but for replacing her in Murray's hands, with security merely for her life. 3 The Earls of Arundel and Pembroke, Lord Lumley, and Sir N. Throgmorton were served with separate orders to present themselves at Windsor. They did not venture to disobey, and on their arrival they were placed under arrest in their rooms. It was ascertained that Norfolk was still in 1 Shrewsbury had led Mary Stuart to believe that when the movement began he would join her friends. On the 2oth of September she wrote to La Mothe : 'Je ne trouve nulle Constance en M. de Cherosbury a ceste heure en mon besoing pour toutes les belles parolles qu'il m'a donnee an passe.' De- pches, vol. ii. p. 254. 3 The Earl of Huntingdon to Elizabeth, September 21 : MSS. QUEEN OF SCOTS. 3 Instructions to Sir II. Carey, September 21 : Burghley Papers.