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 1583.] THE JESUITS IN SCOTLAND. 309 Lords should send representatives with their own and the King's demands, that she might consider them at leisure. Colville and Colonel Stewart were chosen commissioners, and were expected in London in the spring. She had been hard to persuade, and remained vio- lently suspicious. ' She had entered into a jealous con- ceit that reports of French promises and offers of pensions to the King and the Lords were devices to prepare the way for Col. Stewart's arrival that he might have the better market.' She did not see that James's marriage concerned her. Let him marry where he would, ' her Highness was persuaded that nothing would be attempted during her life for attaining the interest which the King pretended to the English crown.' 1 Walsingham believed her to be mistaken. ' He feared she would learn by dangerous effects the error of her own judgment.' 2 ' He saw no disposition in her to deal with Scotland as she ought.' She fancied that a smooth letter to James would now keep him straight. Walsingham knew that neither James nor the Lords would be cheated any more with words. ' They would look for deeds,' which, as he said, ' we are slow enough to perform.' 3 She desired Burghley and Walsingham, with the Lord Chancellor and Sir Walter Mildmay, to consult and report to her what they considered that she ought to do. They concluded that with ten thou- sand pounds a year she might purchase the permanent 1 Walsingham to Bowes, February 27, 1583 : MSS. Scotland. 2 Ibid. * "Walsingham to Bowes, February 6 : MSS. Ibid.