iS8i.] THE JESUIT INVASION. 25 he said, ' that her Majesty had overslipped her best opportunity,' 'that it had not pleased her to enter sooner into the execution of matters fit for her surety.' ' If his own blood would stop the gap that had been opened he would gladly give it.' But it was now too late for regrets. Courage was wanted courage ' in deed and not in words,' and what her Majesty would do she must do quickly.' * Her Majesty it seemed was herself of the same opinion. Huntingdon flew to York to collect troops, while Randolph made haste to Edinburgh. Morton's friends had not been idle. The Earl of Angus, his cousin, had two thousand of the Douglases under arms. The ministers had begun to see that worse might be before them than Tulchan bishops. Ruthven, who had gone with Lennox from a private grudge, had returned to his party. Lindsay was true as steel to the cause for which he had stood by Morton at Carberry and at Lochleven ; and all the Protestants in Scotland, Peers and Commons, were ready to take arms when the first English soldier had stepped out from Berwick upon Scotch soil. Should Huntingdon and Hunsdon move they would blow Lennox back to France again, with more ease by far than Sir Wm. Drury had taken Edinburgh Castle. Yet he was indifferent to his danger, and his friends in Elizabeth's household must have told him that he need not be alarmed. The day before Randolph reached Edin- burgh Morton was carried off to Dumbarton. To the 1 Sussex to Walsingham, January 7 : MSS. Scotland.
