always  asking  for  money,  and  using  their  religion  as  a  pretext  for
despoiling  her,  which  she  said  she  would  never  allow,  and  the
Treasurer  approved  of  her  determination.
The  next  day  Stuart  brought  great  pressure  upon  Walsingham  to
submit  to  the  Queen  the  reasons  which  existed  for  her  to  help  the
king  of  Scotland,  and  the  same  night  he,  Walsingham,  did  so  very
warmly,  whereupon  the  Queen  replied  that  her  own  servants  and
favourites  professed  to  love  her  for  her  good  parts,  Alen^on  for
her  person,  and  the  Scots  for  her  crown,  three  entirely  different
reasons,  but  they  all  ended  in  the  same  thing,  namely,  asking  her  for
money.  The  one  object  was  to  drain  her  treasury,  but  she  would
take  care  to  defend  it,  as  money  was  the  principal  sinew  and  force
of  princes.  Walsingham  repeated  this  to  Stuart,  who  was  very
indignant,  protesting  that  the  Queen  would  repent  of  it,  when
perhaps  it  would  be  too  late  for  her  to  remedy  the  evil  that  would
befall  her.  Walsingham  therefore  offered  to  reiterate  his  arguments
to  the  Queen,  and,  although  Stuart  displayed  much  dissatisfaction
at  the  small  hopes  of  getting  any  money,  it  may  be  suspected  that
they  will  give  him  something,  and  that  all  this  ceremony  is  only
to  reduce  the  amount,  it  being  the  Queen's  aim  to  keep  Scotch
affairs  in  suspense,  without  coming  to  close  quarters  with  them,
and  allowing  them  to  press  her  to  declare  the  King  as  her  heir.
This  was  the  reason  why  she  referred  the  question  of  the  alliance
to  the  queen  of  Scotland,  who  will  certainly  not  agree  to  it,  as  its
object  is  the  preservation  of  their  abominable  religion.  I  will
report  further  developments  ;  this  being  the  present  position.
