1567-1 THE MURDER OF DARNLEY. 523 Match. ' Lady Lennox demands vengeance upon the Queen of Scots/ de Silva said ; * nor is Lady Lennox alone in the belief of her guilt ; they say it is revenge for the Italian secretary. The heretics denounce her with one voice ; the Catholics are divided ; her own friends ac- quit her; the connections of the King cry out upon her without exception/ 1 On the ist of March, Moret, the Duke of Savoy's ambassador at the Scotch Court, passed through London on his way to the Continent. He had been in Edinburgh at the time of the murder ; and de Silva turned to him for comfort. But Moret had no comfort to give. * I pressed him/ said de Silva,
- to tell me whether he thought the Queen was inno-
cent ; he did not condemn her in words, but he said nothing in her favour ; ' 2 ' the spirits of the Catholics are broken ; 3 should it turn out that she is guilty, her party in England is gone, and by her means there is no more chance of a restoration of religion/ 4 1 De Silva to Philip, February 22: MS. Ibid. 5 ' Apretandole que me dixese lo quo le parccia conforme a lo que el habia visto y colegido si la Eeyna tenia culpa dello, aunque no la le ondeno de palabra, no le salbo nada.' De Silva to Philip, March i : MS. Ibid. 3 ' Mucho ha este caso enflaque- cido los nnimos de los Catolicos.' Ibid. 4 Ibid.
