l'a gastee que
l'execution de la pauvre reigne d'Escosse, sans cela c'estoit une
tres-rare princesse.

"...Estant ainsi a table devisant familierement avec ces seigneurs, elle
dit ces mots, (apres avoir fort louee le roy): C'estoit le prince du
monde que j'avois plus desire de voir, & luy avois deja mande que
bientost je le verrois, & pour ce j'avois commande de me faire bien
appareiller mes galeres (usant de ces mots) pour passer en France expres
pour le voir. Monsieur le connestable, d'aujourd'huy, qui estoit lors
Monsieur d'Amville, respondit, Madame, je m'asseure que vous eussiez
este tres-contente de le voir, car son humeur & sa facon vous eussent
pleu; aussi lui eust il este tres-content de vous voir, car il eust fort
aime votre belle humeur & vos agreables facons, & vous eust fait un
honorable accueil & tres-bonne chere, & vous eust bien fait passer le
temps. Je le croy & m'en asseure, dit elle." &c.

By the death of the king of France, and the increasing distractions of
that unhappy country under the feeble minority of Charles IX., the
politics of the king of Spain also were affected. He had not now to fear
the union of the crowns of England France and Scotland under the joint
rule of Francis and Mary, which he had once regarded as a not
improbable event; consequently his strongest inducement for keeping
measures with Elizabeth ceased to operate, and he began daily to
disclose more and more of that animosity with which he could not fail to
regard a princess who was at once the heroine and patroness of
protestantism. From this time he began to furnish secret aids which
added hope and courage to the English partisans of popery and of Mary;
and Elizabeth judged it a necessary policy to place her catholic
subjects under a more rigid system of restraint. It was contrary to her
private inclinations to treat this sect with severity, and she was the
more reluctant to do so as she thus gratified in an especial manner the
wishes of the puritanical or Calvinistic party in the church, their
inveterate enemies; and by identifying in some measure her cause with
theirs, saw herself obliged to conform in several points to their views
rather than her own wishes.

The law which rendered it penal to hear mass was first put in force
against several persons of rank, that the example might strike the more
terror. Sir Edward Waldegrave, in Mary's reign a privy-councillor, was
on this account committed to the Tower, with his lady a