To the English contingent Arran preferred 5000 pounds in ready money--that was his price.
Sadleyr, Henry's envoy, saw Mary of Guise, and saw her little daughter unclothed; he admired the child, but could not disentangle the cross-webs of intrigue.

The national party--the Catholic party--was strongest, because least disunited.

When the Scottish ambassadors who went to Henry in spring returned (July 21), the national party seized Mary and carried her to Stirling, where they offered Arran a meeting, and (he said) the child queen's hand for his son.

But Arran's own partisans, Glencairn and Cassilis, told Sadleyr that he fabled freely.

Representatives of both parties accepted Henry's terms, but delayed the ratification.