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 4 c>4 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 67. discomfort' of the four ministers who had fled from Edinburgh to Berwick ; and ' the Archbishop of Can- terbury and other of the clergy,' Walsingham bitterly said, ' so prevailed with the Queen, as they were neither suffered to preach nor no man durst harbour them for fear of offence.' 1 Hunsdon meanwhile went as he was ordered, and the Earl of Arran came to meet him on the Border. They had an interview in Foulden Church, a few miles from Berwick, where the Scotch favourite succeeded as absolutely as he could have desired in imposing upon the Englishman's simplicity. Lord Rothes and five or six of James's councillors attended the Earl to the meeting, and during the conversation ' walked for above five hours in the churchyard, seeming all but as serv- ants.' Arran was fluent and confident. His arrogance passed for evidence of power, and he dazzled his com- panion with shows and scraps of classic learning. 2 He was one of those to whom ' heaven was but a conceit to make fools fayne,' and ' hell a boggell to fley bairns ; ' one 'who esteemed religion and worshipping of God but a superstitious terrour to the consciences of the people to hold them in awe and obedience.' 3 He told Hunsdon that he had the King in his hand ; that through him Elizabeth might, if she pleased, be secure Walsingham to Davison, Au- gust 13 23 : MSS. Scotland. 2 ' The King hears hut the name, and he the sway. If I can judge of a wise man, I think him one, and one of the hest tongues that I have heard. He has a princely presence. Latin is rife with him, and some- times Greek.' Hunsdon to Burgh- ley, August 1424 : MSS. Ibid. 3 CALDEBWOOD.