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 1583.] EXPULSION OF MENDOZA. 381 chief to be immediately apprehended. Notwithstanding Alenon she was on good terms with the French Go- vernment. Catherine de Medici had written affection- ately to her after Alencon's return from the Low Countries, regretting that the marriage had come to nothing, but expressing a hope that the friendship be- tween the two Crowns might remain unbroken, 1 and that then and always they might act together in the interests of Christendom. 2 Even Walsingham was satisfied that nothing was to be feared from the King and the Queen- mother, 3 and as to Guise and his brother, a small subsidy to the Huguenots would find them occupation at home. 4 In Scotland Elizabeth recognized that mischief was working, but she had played into Guise's hands by the way in which she had dealt with it. Her letter to James ' mightily stirred the coals.' 5 The more angry she showed herself the less he regarded her admonitions. The Queen of England, he said, ruled her subjects, and he intended to rule the Scots. Confident in Guise and in the expected invasion, he no longer thought it necessary to carry a fair face to Gowrie. He proceeded to call to account both him and all the others who had been concerned in the raid, and insisted that if they were not to be punished they should 1 Catherine de Medici to Eliza- beth, July 1626 : MSS. France. 2 "Walsingham to Cobham, Au- gust 6 16 : MSS. Ibid. 3 Walsingham to Bowes, August 2030: MSS. Scotland. 4 ' La Eeyna con la libertad del Rey de Escocia ha juzgado ser lo quemas le importa, es remover gucrra en Francia, en la cual de por fuer<ja se han de ocupar los dc la casa do Guisa.' Don Bernardino al Rey, 19 Agosto : MSS. Simancas. 5 Bowes to Walsingham, August 2030: MSS. Scotland.