1566.] THE MURDER OF DARNLE Y. 491 dismissed to return to his father. In unhappy contrast the Earl of Both well was brought as soon as he could be moved to Jedburgh ; and on the loth of Novem- ber the Court broke up, and proceeded by slow journeys towards Edinburgh for the Prince's baptism. At Kelso the Queen found a letter from her husband. It seems that he had been again writing in complaint of her to the Pope and the Catholic powers. 1 He was probably no less unwise in the words which he used to herself; and she exclaimed passionately in Murray's and Maitland's presence ' that unless she was freed of him in some way she had no pleasure to live, and if she could find no other remedy she would put hand to it herself.' 2 Leaving Kelso and skirting the Border, she looked from Halydon Hill over Berwick and the English lines, and that fair vision of the future where Darnley was the single darkening image. A train of knights and gentlemen came out to do her homage and attend her to Ayemouth ; the Berwick batteries as she went by saluted the heiress of the English crown ; all through Northumberland, through Yorkshire, to the very gates of London^Jiad she cared to visit Elizabeth, Mary Stuart wouldJve been then received with all butjregal honours. The Earl of Bedford of all English nobles the most determined of her opponents was preparing 1 De Silva in a letter, late in the winter, to Philip, spoke of writing to the Queen of Scots ' A cerca del mal oficio que su marido hahia hecho contra ella con V. M d . y con el Papa y Principes en lo de su religion.' MS. Simancas. 2 CALDERWOOD.
