278 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 43. 'I do find this Queen so captivate either by love or cunning or rather to say truly by boasting or folly that she is not able to keep promise with herself, and therefore not able to keep promise with your Majesty in these matters/ 1 Anticipating an immediate insurrection in Northum- berland and Yorkshire, he begged that Bedford, who had gone to London, might return to Berwick without an hour's delay ; and that the troops there might be largely reinforced. He returned at his leisure through York, to inform the council there of the names of dangerous persons which he had learnt in Scotland ; and mean- while he sketched a course of action to Leicester and Cecil which would either prevent the marriage or cripple it with conditions which would deprive it of its danger. Elizabeth he thought should immediately make pub- lic ' the indignity ' which had been offered her by the Queen of Scots, and should declare without ambiguity her intention of ' chastising the arrogancy ' of subjects who had disowned their allegiance. He recommended the arrest of the Earl of Northumberland, the detention of Lady Lennox * in close and separate confinement/ and the adoption of prompt measures to disabuse 'the Papists' of their belief 'that they were themselves in credit and estimation.' An eye should be kept on the Spanish ambassador ' there the matter imported much ' and favour should be shown to Lady Catherine Grey, who, though fast sinking under hard usage, still survived. 1 Throgmortou to Elizabeth, May 21 : Scotch MSS. Soils Rome.
