THE JESUIT INVASION. 21 of the Kirk by maintaining bishops to please Elizabeth ; and both, for having been, as they considered, too sub- servient ' to the auld enemy.' The crowd saw him pass in silence ; and when the Castle gates closed behind him there was neither regret nor sign of displeasure. The news flew to England, to France, and over France to Spain and Rome, and the exultation of the Catholic world was a singular tribute to Morton's greatness. The Queen of Scots heard of it at Sheffield, and though as yet ignorant of all its meaning, she knew that her most detested enemy was in the power of her friends, and had but one fear, that the English might interpose to save him. She wrote to Mauvissiere charging Morton with having been the cause of all her misfortunes, and the most disloyal of mankind. 1 She wrote to the Arch- bishop of Glasgow at Paris bidding him explain to the King the enormity of Morton's offences ; 2 and the King, little dreaming that the overthrow of the late Regent was the first act of a scheme of which one of the results contemplated by its authors was the dismemberment of the French Empire, addressed a request to Elizabeth at Mauvissiere's entreaty to abstain from interference. The English Catholic nobles Mendoza does not specify which among them but speaks generally of all let Lennox know that by them the death of his prisoner would be received with entire satisfaction, and Mendoza himself in sending his congratulations to the Queen of 1 Mauvissiere to the King of France, January II : TEULET, vol. 2 The Queen of Scots to the Archbishop of Glasgow, January 12 and March 4 : LABANOFJF, vol. v.
