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 1582.] THE JESUITS IN SCOTLAND. 255 cousin on the throne of Elizabeth but give him para- mount influence over the destinies of his own country. Lennox was burning to begin, prepared to place restraint upon James, and to colour his apparent rebellion with the name of the Queen of Scots. 1 And Guise might perhaps have declined to sacrifice his opportunity to the timidity of Philip. With the sup- port and in the name of the Pope, he would probably have crossed into Scotland, in the course of the sum- mer, but for the power of a party there whom the great world of Europe had not yet learnt to take into account. The story turns from the secret chamber of con- spirators to the keen air of the Presbyterian General Assembly. Although James showed unexpected objections to being made a Catholic, it was more easy to teach him to detest the Kirk. His sister of England kept her clergy in order with the help of bishops in dependence upon her- self. He admired the example and was eager to imitate it. Morton, it has been seen, had preserved the spectre of an Episcopate partly to gratify Elizabeth, partly as a means of supplying the necessities of the exchequer. Refractory cows in Scotland were induced to yield their milk by calf-skins stuifed to deceive them. The mock calves were called Tulchans, and the creatures of Mor- ton were nicknamed Tulchan bishops. They collected the revenues of the Sees and handed them over to their 1 Lennox to Mendoza, July, 1582 : MSS Simanoas.