CONTENTS. xi PAGE Suggestion of a Marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou . . . . . . . . 356 Review of the Situation by Cecil . . . . . . 358 Cecil favours the Anjou Marriage . . . . . . 361 Elizabeth opens the question with the French Ambas- sador . . . . . . . . . . 362 Debate in the Council . . . . . . . . 364 Report of La Mothe Fenelon on Elizabeth's Private Character . . . . . . . . . . 3,66 Conversation between Lord Buckhurst and Catherine de Medici . . . . . . . . . . 369 Anxiety of "Walsingham for the Marriage with Anjou 372 Commission in London for the Restoration of the Quenn of Scots . . . . , . . . 375 Objections raised by Morton . . . . --376 The Commission is suspended . . . . . . 378 Mary Stuart determines to throw herself upon Spain 380 Alva seeks a Reconciliation with Elizabeth . . . . 381 Indignation of the Pope . . . . . . 383 The Pope and the Spanish Ambassador at Rome . . 385 The Bishop of Ross writes to the Duchess of Feria . . 386 The Pope urges Philip to declare against Elizabeth . . 389 Ridolfi . . . . . . . . . . 390 The Duke of Norfolk and the Catholic Conspiracy . . 392 The Catholic Peers determine to petition Spain for Assistance . . . . . . . . . . 394 Letter of the Spanish Ambassador to Philip . . 395 Petition of the Queen of Scots . . . . . . 396 Petition of the Duke of Norfolk . . . . . . 402 Departure of Ridolfi . . . . . . . . 411 Capture of Dumbarton Castle . . . . ..412 Execution of the Archbishop of St Andrews . . 419
