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 THE JESUITS IN SCOTLAND. 239 disclaimed all wish to see the forms established in either realm violently overthrown. ' God,' she said, * must frame men's hearts to religion, and not violence or the force of man ; ' she had always opposed and always would oppose a religious revolution. She had acquainted Mendoza with her plan of as- sociation, and she had desired him to communicate it to Philip. It has been seen that she had herself written to the Court of France about it. Yet she declared with an oath to Beale that no prince or potentate, except her Majesty, was acquainted with her purpose ; and that her desire was to be guided in all her actions by the advice of the Queen of England. Again and most par- ticularly she denied that she had dealings with Spain. Accomplished as the Queen of England l $$ 2. often showed herself in the art of lying, her Januarv - genius paled before the cynical proficiency of her rival. "When Mary Stuart had done with Beale, she sent an exact account of her conversation with him to Mendoza. She described scornfully the advances which had been made to her, how she had met them, and how Elizabeth was counting without her host. 1 While she had sworn to Beale she had no views for herself or James in con- nection with Spain, and no wish to revolutionize the Church, she told Mendoza in the same letter that all her hopes lay with Philip; that she looked to 1 'Voila le compte qu'elle me faisoit, comme on diet, sans son hoste.' Queen of Scots to Mendoza, January 14, 1582 ; MSS. Simmcaa. Cf. Beale to Walsingham, November 14 and November 28, 1581 : MSS. MAKY QUEEN OF SCOTS.