I  hope  as  soon  as  you  may  receive  news  from  Spain  you  will  let
me  know.  Do  not  trouble  youself  about  that  Archibald  Douglas
who  was  recently  arrested  by  Walsingham.  He  has  been  a
great  mischief-maker  in  times  past,  and  this  will  divert  him  from
all  secret  understandings  and  agreements  with  Walsingham.* —
12th  October  1582.
♦  Castelcau,  writing  to  Henry  III.,  17th  January  XRSa  (Harl.  1582,  fol.  324),  siys
Douglas  has  asked  him  to  lend  him  1,000  crowns,  "  as  do  several  others  here  whom  I
"  have  diverted  from  the  Spanish  party  ....  lie  is  a  man  of  quality  and  great
"  scrvici;,  who  has  refused  a  pension  of  2,000  crowns  from  the  queen  of  England,  and
"  is  so  competent  that  I  can  refuse  him  nothing  in  my  power."  The  subsequent
hcliaviour  of  Douglas,  who  was  one  of  Darnley's  murderers,  proved  that  the  Queen's
distrust  of  him  was  well-founded.  See  his  correspondence  in  the  Hatfield  State  Papers
•Hist.  liSS.  Com.  Part  III.),


ELIZABETH.  405


1682.
1  Nov.  288.  The  Kino  to  Bernardino  de  Mendoza.
