340 EIGN OF ELIZABETH. [011.44. ni cuts, insisted ' that the Queen of Scots meant evil and nothing but evil/ and that however long she was borne with she would have to be brought to reason by force at last. 'You, my lord/ he wrote anxiously to Leicester, ' do all you can to move her Majesty ; it is looked for at your hand, and all worthy and godly men of this nation shall love and honour you for ever ; let it be handled so that this Queen may know how she has been misguided and ill-advised to take so much upon her not only against these noblemen, but far above that if she had power to her will.' l But it was, from Murray himself that Elizabeth had to encounter the most inconvenient remonstrances. ~To save .England from a Oatholic revolution and to save England's Queen from the machinations of a dangerous rival, the Earl of Murray had taken arms against his sovereign, and he found himself a fugitive and an out- law, while the sacred cause of the Reformation in his own country had been compromised by his fall. His life was safe,, but Mary Stuart, having failed to take or kill him, was avenging herself on his wife, and the first news which he heard after reaching England was that Lady Murray had been driven from her home, and within a few weeks of her confinement was wandering shelterless in the woods. Submission and soft speeches would have been his more prudent part, but Murray, a noble gentleman of stainless honour, was not a person to sit down patiently as the dupe of timidity or fraud. itaridolph to Leicester, October 18 : Scotch MSS. Rolls Home.
