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 524 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 67. Queen of Scotland, she said, was making a treaty with a sister sovereign, and it was a mere condescension on her part to allow her son to have a voice in it. 1 Such a tone at such a moment shows how little she had realized the possibility of James's actually failing her. His successes had really been hers. She it was and not he, who by incessant effort, and by the lavish use of her French dowry, had overthrown Morton and Gowrie and broken up the Protestant party. She was offending, as she well knew, all the earnest Catholics abroad, by consenting to treat at all ; but she pined for liberty, and she believed that the attitude of Scotland would compel Elizabeth to set her free. Nau took with him to London a ' note of remem- brances ' on the disposition towards her of each of the members of Elizabeth's council. Hatton's name stood first. Hatton, whose solitary merit had been his sup- posed affection for his sovereign, had many times sent Mary Stuart word that if the Queen died he would fetch her to London with the royal guard. 2 Leicester had been her friend also till his marriage with Lettice Knowles ; but his wife's influence and his designs on Lady Arabella for his son had converted him into a dangerous enemy. Huntingdon she liked well, in spite of his pretensions to the succession, and Burghley she 1 The Queen of Scots to the Master of Gray, December 14 24 : LABANOFF, vol. vi. 2 ' Hatton liiy a faict divers bons offices, luy offrant par la Contesse de Shrewsbury que la Royne d'Angle- terre venant a deceder, il seroit prest de venir trouver la Royne d'Escosse avec la garde.' Remembrances to Nau, November, 1584: MSS. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.