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 240 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 65. Philip to put down heresy in Scotland, and that her warmest hopes for her son were to see him married to a Spanish princess. She had herself long felt the Pope had told her, and her Catholic friends in England had told her that Spain was the power on which she must rely ; but James's conversion was the first step, without which all else would fail. He had promised her, she said, to give a hearing to any one whom she would send to teach him. Her desire was therefore that the Archbishop of Glasgow should return to Scot- land, taking with him some learned French divines. They would encounter, and of course triumphantly de- feat, the ministers of the Kirk, and all would be done. 1 Six English noblemen, it will be remembered, had resolved to represent to James that his prospects in England depended on his reconciliation with Borne Arran had been sapping his morals with loose women at Dalkeith ; while Lennox, with cautious dissimulation, had destroyed the political combination which had sup- ported the Kirk, and had brought him into violent hos- tility with Elizabeth. His mother and his Guise cousins were now going to work upon his soul. All these separate influences were set playing like converging batteries on the unfortunate boy. They had been hitherto acting independently. The Jesuit mission was now to be the instrument to bring them into harmonious co-operation. Among the Scotch Catholics who had been educated The Queen of Scots to Mendoza, January 14 : MSS. Simaneaa.