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 1 6 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 63. her friends one by one. He would ' nourish troubles ' on the Border, and for every hundred pounds that she had saved by refusing the requests of the Abbot of Dunfermline she would have to spend a thousand on the garrisons of the Marches. He would find a wife for the King in France or Spain, and, when opportunity served, would make ' present title ' to her crown, as his mother did when she married the Dauphin. And ' the King would have more help than she, because he was a young man in whom both kingdoms would seem to be knit to avoid peril by uncertainty of succession : ' while ' he would have the comfort also of all discontented persons in England, whereof the number was now far greater than at the beginning of her Majesty's reign.' l She was recommended to send ' an embassy of weight ' to Edinburgh Lord Hunsdon, Lord Scrope, or some other great person whose presence 'would encourage those who liked not Lennox,' and to intimate clearly and decidedly that if her remonstrances were not at- tended to, she would declare war. She yielded as usual. Instructions in this spirit were drawn out for Lord Hunsdon and Si'r Walter Mildmay ; but they were no sooner written than they were repented of. Lennox plied her with deprecating letters, which she allowed to influence her, though she did not believe their sincerity. She recalled Bowes, bidding him tell the King that she was deeply displeased with his ingratitude, but that as he would not listen to her he must go his own way ; 1 A purpose of Council at Richmond, September 18, 1580 : M.SS. Scot* land. Burghley's hani