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 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. 53. place described ' as not to be compared to an English dog-kennel.' Lord Westmoreland, 'to be the more un- known/ exchanged his gay dress for the outlaw's greasy breeks and jerkin, and he and his companions spent their Christmas in the caves and peat-holes in the woods of Harlaw and the Debateable Land, till their more powerful Scottish friends could take measures for their relief. 1 While Clinton and Warwick were thus hunting the insurgents out of the country, Chapin Vitelli, in Lon- don, seeing the Catholics cut so poor a figure, was little disposed to encourage his master in going to war for them. Elizabeth was so suspicious of him, that at one time she sent him an order to leave the country ; 2 but he struggled on, doing his best to propitiate her, hold- ing out hopes that if she would make up matters with Spain, Spain would assist her in recovering Calais ; and, if he produced little effect upon the Queen, he succeeded in seriously alarming the French ambassador. La Mothe Fenelon, to sound perhaps the real intentions itf the Spaniards, said to Don Guerau, that if he could do anything to assist the Earls, he would himself heartily co-operate with him. Don Guerau coldly excused him- self; 3 and La Mothe, more afraid than ever that a re- 1 Sussex to Cecil, December 22 (midnight) : Border MSS. 2 Don Guerau to Alva, Decem- ber i. 3 'El Embajador del Key Chris- tianissimo me vin6 &. visitar y decir que si yo podia favorescer 5. cstos en esta justa causa que por parte de su Rev me seria buen compafiero, sin celos y sospecba alguna; yo me escuse con decir que no tenia man- damiento de su Magestad sobre ello.' Don Guerau to Alva ? December I,