Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . parescido que se podriacasar, y podria ser que per alguno rodeo entrasse en este pensamiento y platica con vos,paresce que sucendiendo el caso no se deue huyr, sino dexarla correr quanto ella quisiereporque sera buena occasion para lo que arrlba se aduierte. CHAP. III. TUNIS, ITALY, AND THE NETHERLANDS. 127 obtained, His Holiness might be asked to supply the necessarybenediction, briefs, and a Nuncio, and to interpose if any of theCatholic powers sought to support Queen Elizabeth. The enter-prise must
Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . parescido que se podriacasar, y podria ser que per alguno rodeo entrasse en este pensamiento y platica con vos,paresce que sucendiendo el caso no se deue huyr, sino dexarla correr quanto ella quisiereporque sera buena occasion para lo que arrlba se aduierte. CHAP. III. TUNIS, ITALY, AND THE NETHERLANDS. 127 obtained, His Holiness might be asked to supply the necessarybenediction, briefs, and a Nuncio, and to interpose if any of theCatholic powers sought to support Queen Elizabeth. The enter-prise must be carried on in a spirit of liberality, kindness, and forgiveness, and nothing must be said about rebellion or heresyto the Catholics or others who might join the Spanish instructions concluded in these characteristic words :— The great brotherly love with which I regard and always have regarded you makes me desire the success of this affair, because I consider in it, next to the service of God, the means it may afford me of showing how much I love you ; in token whereof. MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND. MEDAL. I now assure you that, if all goes well with this enterprise of England, it will please me to see you settled there and married to the Queen of Scots—a marriage which I understand she desires, and which indeed will be due to the man who shall deliver her from so great misery, and set her free and in possession of her realms, even to one whose quality and valour might not, as yours do, of themselves deserve it. In case of success there will be some things to fix and determine; but upon these it is not expedient to enter till the time shall come. Meanwhile, it is sufficient to advise you that your settlement in the aforesaid kingdom will have to be in such form and on such conditions as shall appear to me expedient for my service and for the good of our affairs and States. These instructions,although committed to writing, were, it seems, only read toEscovedo. Bu
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