159.
**** Crawford, p.92.Melvil, p.

94, 95.

Haynes, p.

574.
He had ever been a partisan of the queen of Scots.

Secretary Lidington, who began also to incline to that party, and was a man of singular address and capacity, had engaged him to embrace further views in her favor, and even to think of espousing her: and though that duke confessed[*] that the proofs against Mary seemed to him unquestionable, he encouraged Murray in his present resolution, not to produce them publicly in the conferences before the English commissioners.[**] Norfolk, however, was obliged to transmit to court the queries proposed by the regent.