This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857. Excerpt: ... mistress for having allowed her better feelings to counteract the harsh policy dictated by her ministers.1 "If your Majesty,"-writes he, "have said, it is too late to call it back again. But she looks for more favor than this comes unto, howsoever she is encouraged thereunto; and she will bide all extremities rather than she will look back from the hope that is once given her: and this you may be sure of, that until you have sent away the Bishop of Ross in such despair, that either this Queen must be content with such resolution as you shall give him, or else that your Majesty will proceed against her, and forcibly maintain my Lord of Moray"s government, you shall never bring her to a resolute yielding, for she hath courage to hold out as long as any foot of hope be left unto her; and until she shall see a severe order and commandment for her removing, she will stick the faster, in the hope of your mildness. Now, as your Majesty"s judgment must needs be ruled by such affections and passions of your mind as happen to have dominion over you, so yet the resolutions digested by the deliberate consultations of your most faithful counselors, ought ever to be had in most price in these so weighty affairs. This Queen seems to think that your Majesty is moved to deal more favorably with her by reason of a general answer that she sent your Majesty by her Commissioners, even about the same time that the Bishop of Ross lastly upon Christmas even came unto you But I suppose it were better policy for your Majesty to disclose your favor to us before you do disclose it to the Bishop of Ross, for he will convert all that he hears or can gather by presumptions to harden this Queen to hold off, the better to make her bargain with your Majesty. This day, when she told us of ...