1584] EXPULSION OF MENDOZA. 4'3 He had swarms of foreigners on his hands, 1 whom he would have to carry away with him. ' He could not leave them on the horns of the bull/ The Channel pirates would probably catch him if he attempted to sail for Spain. He must go to France, and he distrusted his reception there. His exchequer was embarrassed, and the expense would ruin him ; while so great, he said, was the fury of the people in London, that he was like to be torn in pieces. He was charged publicly in the churches, and even by a Court preacher in the pre- sence of the council, with having conspired against the Queen's life. 2 ' The insolence of these people,' he wrote to Secretary Idriaquez, ' so exasperates me, that I desire to live only to be revenged upon them. I hope in God the time will soon come, and that He will give me grace to be an instrument in their punishment. I will walk bare- foot over Europe to compass it. His Majesty, I am certain, will send them the answer which they have deserved.' 3 'God,' he wrote to Philip himself, 'has made your Majesty so great a Prince, that you cannot overlook such insolence, though they offer you all the world to forgive them.' He was obliged to go, leaving Northumberland in 1 Come over probably to take part in the expected rising. 2 " Teniendome todos tanta indig- imciou, que se ha acrecentado mucho mas con la fama que han echado de que me mandan salir por haber tra- tado de ma tar a la Reyna, lo cual dixo uu ministro en sus prcdicas en la misma corte adelante de todos cs- tos consejeros.' Mendoza al Roy, 1626 Enero, 1584 : MSS. Si- mancas. 3 Mendoza a Don Juan de Idria- quez, 16-26 Enero : MSS. Stmaneas.
