isted in her resolution to make no reply before the English
commissioners, this demand was finally refused her.[****] [14]

* Cabala, p. 157.

** Goodall, vol. ii. p. 280.

*** See note M, at the end of the volume.

**** Goodall, vol. ii. p. 253, 283, 289, 310, 311. Haynes,
vol. i. p. 492. See note N, at the end of the volume.

As Mary had thus put an end to the conferences, the regent expressed
great impatience to return into Scotland; and he complained, that his
enemies had taken advantage of his absence, and had thrown the whole
government into confusion. Elizabeth therefore dismissed him; and
granted him a loan of five thousand pounds, to bear the charges of his
journey.[*] During the conferences at York, the duke of Chatelrault
arrived at London, in passing from France; and as the queen knew that he
was engaged in Mary's party, and had very plausible pretensions to the
regency of the king of Scots, she thought proper to detain him till
after Murray's departure. But notwithstanding these marks of favor, and
some other assistance which she secretly gave this latter nobleman,[**]
she still declined acknowledging the young king, or treating with Murray
as regent of Scotland.

* Rymer, tom. xv. p. 677.

* MS. in the Advocates' library. A. 3, 29, p. 128, 129, 130,
from Cott. lab. Cal. c. 1.

Orders were given for removing the queen of Scots from Bolton, a place
surrounded with Catholics, to Tutbury, in the county of Stafford, where
she was put under the custody of the earl of Shrewsbury. Elizabeth
entertained hopes that this princess, discouraged by her misfortunes,
and confounded by the late transactions, would be glad to secure a safe
retreat from all the tempests with which she had been agitated; and she
promised to bury every thing in oblivion, provided Mary would agree,
either voluntary to resign her crown, or to associate her son with
her in the government; and the administration to remain, during his
minority, in the hands of the earl of Murray.[*] But that high-spirited
princess refused all treaty upon such terms, and declared that her
last words should be those of a queen of Scotland. Besides many other
reasons, she said, which fixed her in that resolution, she knew, that if
in the present emergence she made such concessions, her submission would
be universally deemed an acknowledgment of guilt, and would ratify all
the calumnies of her enemies.[**]

* Goo