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 157I-] THE DUKE OF NORFOLK. . u Cecil. Charles Baily, it will be remembered, confessed to two letters which he had brought over addressed with the ciphers 30 and 40, which the Bishop of Ross said that he had burnt, but which in fact had been forwarded to their destination. The figures hitherto had been undeciphered, but the rack now dragged out the truth. Cobham admitted the theft of Baily 's packet and the trick by which Cecil had been partly duped. The secretaries gave up the names and 30 was found to have been the Duke of Norfolk, and 40 his brother- in-law, Lord Lumley. By the middle of Octo- ber the Government had full possession of the entire secret. The remaining noblemen who had been prominently concerned in the conspiracy were traced out one after another. Lumley was sent to the Marshal- sea, Southampton to the Tower, and Arundel placed undei a guard at his own house. The part which the Queen of Scots had played was revealed in her own letters, of which Barker had betrayed the key. Orders went down to Sheffield that her servants should be re- duced, and that she herself should be committeC to close imprisonment. Shrewsbury immediatel}' obeyed. He informed her that her transactions with Hidolfi were discovered ; and he added, as a message from Elizabeth, 'that her intentions and practices against the Queen and the realm did deserve a sharper dealing, as time would shortly make clear to all the world.' l Norfolk's ' soft and dastardly spirit ' never showed 1 Mary Stuart to La Mothe, I Notes in Cecil's hand, October 22. September 8 : LABANOFF, vol. iii. | MSS. QUEEN OF SCOTS,