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 1582.] THE JESUITS IN SCOTLAND. 275 he heard what had happened, ' we may see what it is to be true followers of Christ in earnest preaching and constant persevering in the setting forth his word : now is the time for the Queen to do service to God.' 1 The conspirators were scattered, and their secrets were swiftly ravelled out. Arran told all that he knew. George Douglas was caught going to or coming from Paris. He was tortured, Mendoza says, at the instiga- tion of Elizabeth, and confessed part if not all of his negotiations with the Duke of Guise. 2 The Queen of Scots' correspondence was watched ; a letter, in cipher, to the Archbishop of Glasgow fell into Walsinghain's hands, repeating what she had said to her cousin, dwell- ing on Guise's fitness to conduct the invasion, as recon- ciling the interests of France and Spain, and furnishing an instructive comment on the oaths of innocence which she had sworn so lately to Elizabeth. 3 Now, as Ran- dolph said, was Elizabeth's time ; but it was necessary to keep up appearances with France, and if possible to come to an understanding with the French Court. Henry and his mother were really anxious to maintain ' their influence in Scotland. The Lennox faction was the French faction, and, had Henry dared, he would 1 Randolph to "Walsingham, September 2. Randolph, like an old hunter hearing the cry of the hounds, was anxious to he in the field again. ' If any are to be sent to Scotland,' he said, with more which I have adventured my body and spent of my own almost to ex- treme beggary.' 2 ' A la peticion desta Reyna le daban tormentos.' Mendoza al Rev, I Noviembre, 1582. emphasis than decorum, ' let me not j 3 Mary Stuart to the Archbishop be cast out of the cart's arse, and others reap the glory of that for of Glasgow, September 10, 1582: MSS. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.