slaves. In Scotland (1561-1565) she bore with almost in- credible
patience the daily insults to herself through her religion : she suffered, she fainted, she was often in great bodily pain, but she kept her temper to a miracle. On the other hand, she was excessively self-centred and personal. She could pardon; but in her heart she could not forgive injuries that went beyond a certain point. If ever she repented of the crowning sin, and it appears that she did, it was in the presence of death. She openly rejoiced in the murder of her brother, and added that she wished her friends would serve another enemy and traitor in the same sort. Probably she referred to Sir James Balfour. She naturally loathed to dissemble, but she was driven to use the weapon of the weak almost as freely as the strong (namely, Elizabeth) employed it. As regards her promises to restore the Church, it may be argued that she was deceiving the Pope, for the sake of subsidies, rather than deceiving her Protestants ; but certainly she was running a double course. Till her faith, during her captivity, became her only worldly hope, she was anything but a trustworthy daughter of the Church. Knox, Elizabeth,
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