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 1569.] ENGLISH PARTIES. 77 attainable. Still the stream ran so violently that on the 27th of August a vote was carried in full council for the settlement of the succession by the marriage of the Queen of Scots to some English nobleman ; and many peers, according to Don Guerau 'the greatest in the land/ ] set their hands to a bond to stand by Norfolk in carrying the resolution into effect. Leonard Dacres and Lord Northumberland had concerted a plan to carry off the Queen of Scots from Wingfield. Dacres had seen her and arranged the details with her. Norfolk how- ever was so confident of success through the council that he thought violent measures unnecessary. The Queen of Scots sent to ask him what he would do if Elizabeth refused to let him marry her. He said she dared not refuse, for all the Peers, except a very few, were determined to have it so. 2 : -. ,v He and his friends had delayed their formal appli- cation for Elizabeth's consent till the arrival of Mait- land ; but of Maitland's coming there was no longer a prospect. Maitland, after the breaking up of the Perth convention, called a meeting of Mary Stuart's supporters at Blair Athol ; on his return to Edinburgh he was ar- rested by Murray on the charge of being an accomplice in Darnley's murder, and was shut up in the Castle with Herries and Chatelherault. fist qu'il avoit la mesme obligation a 1'honneur de la Reyne et a celle de sa couronne que ung bon vassal et conseiller doibte avoir, et que en toutes sortes il contoit plus soigne- usement conserver que sa propre vie.' 1 ' Los mas principales desta Isla.' Don Guerau to Philip, Au- gust 27: MSS. Simancas. 2 Confession of the Bishop of MUBDIN.