"The matter is pacified for the time," and in case of the Regent's death, Chatelherault, d'Oysel, and de Rubay are to be a provisional committee of Government, till the wishes of the King and Queen, Francis and Mary, are known.

Again, in her letter of May 16 to Henri II.

of France, she stated that she was in very bad health, {96a} and, at about the same date (May 18), the English ambassador in France mentions her intention to visit that country at once.

{96b} But the Revolution of May 11, breaking out in Perth, condemned her to suffer and die in Scotland.
This, however, does not amount to proof that no plan of persecution in Scotland was intended.

Throckmorton writes, on May 18, that the Marquis d'Elboeuf is to go thither.