I572-J THE DUKE OF NORFOLK. 71 the Castilians should acknowledge the King and submit to the authority of the Regent. It was a relief to Mar to find at least something which gave him a hold upon Elizabeth's interests. He did not mean to affront Catholic Europe and violate Scotch prejudices for nothing. The cost of the Earl's maintenance for two years had been considerable. The Countess of Northumberland offered Sir William Doug- las sooo/., and it was not to be expected that he would make a present to England of a person whose detention had been so expensive and dangerous. The Eegeiit undertook that the prisoner should not be released, but he said that if Elizabeth looked for more she must change her attitude. She had promised to support the King and assist in the pacification of the country ; if she would keep her word and put an end to the rebel- lion, Scotland and all it contained would be at her dis- position ; but hearing ' the brag of the adversaries that they would outshoot him with his own bow at her Highness' s hands, her Majesty meantime continuing her own estate in such uncertainties,' he could not ' pro- voke the King of Spain by delivering up a man' who called himself the said King's subject/ with no assur- ance after all as to what he was to look for at her High- ness's hands. 1 Elizabeth saw that she was trying the Regent too far. The occupation of Leith and the demonstration against Edinburgh had cost Mar and his friends many Mar to Randolph, April 8 : MSS. Scotland.
