1563.] THE ENGLISH AT HA VRE. 55 not likely to succeed. Maitland demands the recogni- tion, and threatens great things if it is not conceded. With the succession secured to her, he tells the Queen that she will be content to remain on good terms. If she is left in uncertainty, he says that she must seek other friends abroad. ' Cecil answers that if means can be found to provide for his mistress's safety during her lifetime, and to pre- vent a religious revolution from following afterwards, the claims of the Queen of Scots shall be admitted forth- with. Maitland rejoins that this is nothing but words. He has now gone to France. At parting he told me that if his mistress could not have our Prince she would do what she could to obtain the King of France. The Arch- duke Charles she will not hear of. Her own subjects and the English Catholics alike object to the Archduke, and would prefer Lady Margaret's son Lord Darnley. ' Rawlet, the Secretary of the Queen of Scots, assures de Quadra that the Lord James and the whole Scotch nobility, Protestant as well as Catholic, wish for the Prince of Spain. Ten or twelve English peers and knights also have memorialized the Bishop about it, and some of them are willing to swear fealty to the Prince and the Queen of Scots together.' l Unaware of the pit which threatened to open under her feet, and warming herself with the project of the Lord Robert marriage, which would elevate her favourite
