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 492 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. |CH. 45. to be present at the approaching baptism to make his peace as Elizabeth's representative. From D unbar she wrote to Cecil and the rest of the council as to * her good friends/ to whom she committed the care of ' her cause/ From thence she passed on to Craigmillar l to recruit her strength in the keen, breezy air. Some heavy weight still hung upon her spirits : her brilliant prospects failed to cheer her. ' The Queen is at Craigmillar/ wrote du Croq at the end of November ; ' she is still sick, and I believe the principal part of her disease to consist of a deep grief and sorrow : nor can she, it seems, forget the same ; again and again she says she wishes she were dead/ 2 To the lords who had attended her to Dalkeith the cause of her trouble was but too notorious. Instead of listening to her entreaties to relieve her of her husband, the Pope had probably followed the advice of de Silva, and had urged her to be reconciled to him : at any rate she must have known the anxiety of her English friends, and must have felt more wearily than ever the burden of the chain with which she had bound herself. Both- well, Murray, Maitland, and Huntly continued at her side, and at Craigmillar they were joined by Argyle. The lords and gentlemen who had been concerned in Rizzio's murder had by this time most of them re- ceived their pardon ; but the Queen had still found herself unable to forgive Morton, who, with Lindsay, young Ruthven, and Ker, was still in exile in England. 1 Three miles south of Edinburgh, on the road to Dalkeith 2 Du Croq to the Archbishop of Glasgow : KEITH.