378 %EIGN OE ELIZABETH. [CH. 66. land was in Flanders, waiting for the moment to return to his tenants. Durham was reported ready to welcome Allen as Bishop. A brother of Leonard Dacres, who now claimed the title, undertook for Gilsland and the, English Border. Lord "Wharton, the Earl of Cumber- land, and the Percies had promised six thousand horse between them ; Fernihurst and Maxwell, three thousand Scots from Teviotdale and Dumfries. It was calculated that twenty thousand men at least would take arms on the instant that Guise was known to have landed. The Earls of Rutland, Arundel, and Worcester, Lord Mon- tague, and several others had promised to declare them- selves when the insurrection was once in motion. The plan had been minutely arranged. Mendoza was to re- main quietly in London till the "last moment, and then to slip away to Dunkirk. Guise and Allen were to join him there. Parma was to supply the troops. They were to run down the French coast, double the Land's End, and land in Morecambe Bay, where they would be least expected. The Pope had prepared a Bull, de- claring that the King of Spain and the Duke of Guise had undertaken the execution of the Church's censures against Elizabeth. Allen, as Nuncio, was to issue it im- mediately that they were on shore, while the Due de Mayenne, with a second army, was to throw himself on the coast of Sussex, where Lord Paget and Arundel of Wardour had engaged to receive him. The arrangements being thus forward, Guise was cuatro mil buenos soldados,' &c. Instruction por los negocios de Ing- laterra, 1222 de Agosto : TEULET, vol. v.
