The History Of Scotland Volume 4: From Mary Stuart To The Two Murders by Andrew Lang

Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
ISBN: 9783849604646
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2013-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Meanwhile Mary, in France, had been in bad health, and had been evading Throckmorton's demands for the ratification of the treaty of Edinburgh. He reasoned with her at Paris, about June 23, to no avail. She was sending d'Oysel to ask Elizabeth for her safe-conduct. Elizabeth, in public, and in passionate terms, refused, and (July 1) wrote to the Estates insisting on the ratification. Later, she spoke more placidly: if Mary would ratify, she would be ready to meet her in a friendly way. Mary threw away this admirable chance of settling the feud. Many a time, later, was she to pray for a meeting that was never granted. Elizabeth was now clearly in the right. If the obstacle to the ratification was the conduct of the Scots, that had been practically condoned. Mary could not fairly expect to be allowed to travel through England, rousing Catholic hopes, while she did not formally recognise Elizabeth as England's rightful queen. At this moment (July 14) a compromise was invented. Cecil tells Throckmorton that there is "a matter secretly thought of." Mary might acknowledge Elizabeth as Queen of England, might recognise the right of Elizabeth's issue, if she had any, and might herself be recognised as heir, failing her own issue, by Elizabeth. " The queen knoweth of it." But Elizabeth declined this arrangement, urged on August 6 by Lord James. The day she acknowledged Mary as heir might be a day near her own death by assassination. Elizabeth may have calculated rightly. She would not make her own recognition as Queen of England a matter of bargain. Perhaps she dared not recognise Mary as her successor for fear of being murdered. Hence arose the endless feud of the two queens.

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