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 1585.] THE BOND OF ASSOCIATION. 5*3 ' The factions ran very hot ; ' James however, tempted by hounds and horses, 5000^. a year, and the prospect of the succession, which Gray had been allowed indi- rectly to promise him, was inclined on the whole to cast his fortunes with the Queen. She could not herself be induced to allow more than 4000^, but the fifth was provided from some other source. 1 A sketch of the terms of the League was laid before the Lords of Convention. It was described in the pre- amble as directed against the Catholic combination- -a union offensive and defensive for protection against the common enemy. The King promised in it to be guided in his marriage by the Queen of England. Elizabeth bound herself if not to recognize yet to respect the King's title to the English succession. 2 Mary Stuart was not mentioned on one side, nor the banished Lords on the other ; but the Master of Gray had undertaken privately for the latter that when the alliance was completed they should be recalled. The articles were generally approved. The King hinted that he would like an English Duchy. The Convention amplified the preamble, explaining the League to be ' for causes of religion ' against any invader who would disturb the profession of faith established in the two realms ; and they required the Queen to en- gage more precisely, neither directly nor indirectly to July. 1 Perhaps by subscriptions among the council. Wotton asks, on the 9th of July, if he may inform the King of the means by which the support was increased. MSS. Scot- land. 2 Heads of a League to be made between her Majesty and the King of Scots, June 717 : MSS. Ibid. A