A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . t of the personswith whom they were deahng. In vain Hunsdon blustered,and Elizabeth gave her royal promise that the blood-moneyshould be forwarded to Edinburgh immediately after thesurrender. Mars agents demanded their pay in advance.** They mean to delyver hyni very shortlie wrote Hunsdon, but will not delyver hym without the money ^ Hagglingover this point prolonged the transaction until the end ofMay 1572. At length Burghley agreed to have the goldcounted out before the accredited representative of theRe
A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . t of the personswith whom they were deahng. In vain Hunsdon blustered,and Elizabeth gave her royal promise that the blood-moneyshould be forwarded to Edinburgh immediately after thesurrender. Mars agents demanded their pay in advance.** They mean to delyver hyni very shortlie wrote Hunsdon, but will not delyver hym without the money ^ Hagglingover this point prolonged the transaction until the end ofMay 1572. At length Burghley agreed to have the goldcounted out before the accredited representative of theRegent, and duly placed in his hands immediately upon thereceipt of the person of Thomas Percy, formerly Earl of North-umberlandy The Scots expressed themselves satisfied atthis arrangement; but, as will be seen, they continuedwatchful and suspicious to the very last moment. Margave his fmal consent to the bargain, merely expressingthe wish, worthy of Pilate, that, if possible, Northumber-lands life might be spared. Ilayncs, p. 609. ?^ Hunsdon to Burghley, April 1572 ; State Papers,. /A^o^^<x/i. JrCoaA// f^^yFot^.M^/^A^AyCaf^A^ THE HOUSE OF PERCY 337 The manner in which Earl Thomas was betrayed into thehands of his enemies is soon told. To have brought himThe earl sold towards the Border by land might have provokedto his doom, a popular tumult; for his friends were many, andsufficiently influential to cause grave trouble to the Govern-ment. It was therefore decided to have him conveyed bysea ; and a shooting expedition to the Bass Rock was madethe pretext upon which he was lured from keen enjoyment of every form of sporthas been alluded to more than once in these pages,^ so thatit will be understood how gladly he welcomed such achance to vary the monotony of prison life. The Laird ofCleish, a considerable landed proprietor on the shores ofthe loch, was the individual chosen to carry out the won the earls confidence by his cunning discourse
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