^K^ltis^rl^^'  ^^^  Scotsman  who  you  said  was  coming  hither  with  letters
from  Muzio  (Guise)  and  offers  from  some  of  the  principal;men  in
Scotland,  has  arrived  here.  His  mission  and  the  instructions  and
signatures  he  showed  were  all  in  agreement  with  what  you
reported,  and  the  effect  of  them  therefore  need  not  be  repeated
here.  Their  intentions  are  no  doubt  good,  but  it  is  hard  to  believe
that  the  country  would  be  so  easily  converted  to  the  Catholic  faith,
seeing  how  it  is  permeated  with  heresy.  This  fact,  and  also
because  we  are  less  able  to  judge  at  this  distance  as  to  the  time
and  juncture  when  anything  good  could  be  effected,  than  you  who
are  nearer,  has  caused  me  to  defer  my  decision  on  the  business

•  Aubespinc  de  Chateauneuf,  the  French  ambassador  in  England,  was  a  strong  Guue
partisan.
ELIZABETH.  631


1686.
