'585-1 THE BOND OF ASSOCIATION. 573 where he would have less cause to fear them ; and the return of the Master of Gray was only waited for, for the pension to be satisfactorily arranged. Arran indeed was not satisfied. Arran, anxious to secure his forfeit- ures, still demanded that both Angus and the Hamil- tons should be driven out of England ; and Sir Lewis Bellenden, the justice clerk, was sent to London to urge it. But the Master of Gray had gained an influence of his own over James, and Arran was no longer all-power- ful. Arran's interests were not Scotland's. He was the creature of the King's favour : he represented no prin- ciple, and had no political position. Bellenden, when he came up, acted with Gray, and the English ministers were satisfied that whatever dangers threatened the Queen, Scotland was for the present secure. Fear of Scotland was the lever on which Mary Stuart had counted to work upon Elizabeth, and it was slipping out of her hands. Elizabeth sent her the letter i- which James repudiated the association. She cursed the Master of Gray ; she cursed her son ; she swore that sooner than he should enjoy her right in England, as he had already usurped her actual crown, she would dis- inherit him as a false, treacherous, and unnatural child, and would bequeath her claims, whatever they might be, to the worst enemy that he had. 1 - 1 ' J' in voqueray la malediction de Dieu sur luy, et luy donncray non seulement la mienne avec tolles cir- constances qu'ils luy toucheront au vif, mais aussy le deseriterayje et priveray corarae fils desnaturc, in- grat et perfide et desobeissant, do toute la grandeur qu'il peult janiais avoir de moy en ce inonde, et plustost en tcl cas donncray -jc mon droit quel qui soit au plus grand ennemye qu'il aye, avant quo jamais il en
