Aldegonde would seem to purge himself," said Davison, "it is suspected that his end is dangerous.

I have done what I may to restrain him, so nevertheless as it may not seem to come from me." And again--"Ste.

Aldegonde," he wrote, "contimieth still our neighbor at his house between this and Middelburg; yet unmolested.

He findeth many favourers, and, I fear, doth no good offices.

He desireth to be reserved till the coming of my Lord of Leicester, before whom he pretends a desired trial." This covert demeanour on the part of the ambassador was in accordance with, the wishes of his government.