28 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [en. 41. fusing to comply, the mayor sent workmen who changed the locks. De Quadra went to the palace to complain ; but the Queen, without permitting herself to be seen, referred him to the council ; and Cecil at last told him that he could not be allowed to remain at Durham Place. All the Papists in London attended mass there ; every mal- content, every traitor and enemy of the Government, came there at night to consult him. The disturbance which had broken out in Ireland was due to the advice given by de Quadra when O'Neil was in London ; and but for the care which the Queen had taken of him he would probably have long before been murdered by the mob. 1 De Quadra was not a man to be discomposed by high words. He replied that whatever he had done he had done by his master's orders ; and complaints against himself were complaints against the King o*f Spain. If he had seemed to act in an. unfriendly manner, the times were to blame ; if he did not profess the English re- ligion, he professed the religion of Christendom ; and those noble and honourable men who came to his house to mass came where they had a right to come and did not deserve Cecil's imputations Hot words passed to and fro. Cecil charged the Bishop with maintaining traitors and rebels. De Quadra 1 Do Quadra to Philip, January IO: MS. Simrnicas. The accourt of the matter sent by the English council to Sir Thomas Chaloner, agrees closely with that of de Quadra, dwelling only in fuller detail on the midnight conferences of conspirators and traitors held at Durham Place : Spanish MtS., Januiry 7: Rolls Ifouse.
