1585-] THE BOND OF ASSOCIATION. 593 Crawford, and Montrose, were gathering their forces to ioin Arran. The final step therefore was at J October. last taken. Wotton was recalled. The Queen,
- finding,' as she said, * no redress for Lord Russell's
murder/ declared publicly that she ' did not think it honourable to allow a minister to remain at the Scotch Court ; ' and he stole away without taking leave. ' Mr Wotton,' wrote Walsingham to Davison, 'is retired out of Scotland, sans dire adieu ; you shall hear of a change there shortly ; I pray God it may be for the best.' * Angus, Mar, Colville, and the Master of Glamys, sent in a formal request to Elizabeth, which was easily granted them, to be allowed to leave England for Germany. They rode straight for the Border. They were met at Jedburgh by Lord Hume, and a few miles further by Lord Hamilton, who had gone down before them. The hatred against Arran was so deep and general that no English help was needed. The whole Lothians rose, and superstition gave the rising a more than natural force. The plague had lain for months upon the Scotch towns. Twenty thousand people, in the wild estimate of terror, had died in Edinburgh alone. Lady Arran was believed to be a witch, and the pesti- lence to be God's judgment upon her and her husband's devilries. Unresisted and with gathering numbers the another source it would seem that James made more resistance than Arran expected to Guise's coming over. Arran, in the middle of Octo- ber, said ' that the time was not brought to pass.' Scottish adver- tisements, October 19 29 : MSS. Scotland. 1 ATSS. Holland, October 23 November 2. come, but that it should shortly be VOL. xi. 38
