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 15*4-] EXPULSION OF MENDOZA. 43' his own entreaties that Gregory would espouse the cause of ' the poor young man.' * But ' the poor young man's ' cause was complicated by cross poli- tics and purposes extremely difficult to reconcile. Spain and France, while jealous of each other, were neither of them anxious to facilitate the union of Scot- land and England. The English Catholics were Spanish in their sympathies. The Scotch Catholics were French. The Duke of Guise, whose views had been already turning again towards Scotland, re- sponded to James's invitation. He insisted to Allen and de Tassis on the military advantages of landing in a friendly country. If he invaded England out of Scotland, he would be able to take James along with him, 2 present him to the English people as heir to the crown, and introduce him as having come thither to redress the wrongs under which the Catholics were Buffering." On the other hand, there were many Catholics in England, whom even the prospect of the restitution of the faith could not reconcile to a conquest by a Scoto- French army. They were ready to accept a Scotch princess as their sovereign, but their own arms, or the 1 Guise to the Pope, April 5 15 : MSS. Simancas. 2 ' Sospccho que tienenintencion de que lleve el Key de Escocia el ejercito en persona y entre con el en Inglaterra.' Tassis to Philip, April 8 18: TEULET, vol. v. 3 ' The title of the crown was of great efficacy with the English nation. "Whenever any prince did goveiii evil, if the successor did take upon him to remedy the same, never any to whom the succession did belong did at any time take arms to reform the government but he had good success.' Discourse on the Invasion of England, found on Crichton, the Jesuit, May, 1584: MSS. Domestic.