She shalbe like a serpent in the sight of the devill, and as a dove in the sight of the good.

She shalbe the peax maker over all Christendom.

Hir fame shall excede all princes that ever were in Europe. And God shall blesse hir as his owne chosen vessel in this world and in the next.

With the commodyties that shall come by hir marriage,

The incommodyties that are objected.

1. The Q. mislike of mariage, which might brede discontented liffe hereafter.

2. The difficultie in hir choyse to content hir.

3. The daunger that a French prince might, by degrees, usurpe

the state.

4. The daunger if he sholdbe K. of Fr., than he to reside there and the Q. here, and so after, &c.

5. If the Q. have but one son, than England shold fall as a province to Fr., and so to be ruled by a Viceroy, him selfe never the greatest.

6. The difficultie of religion.

7. The charge to the realme for mayntenance of that husband.

8. The generall mislike that Engl. must have of straungers government.

9. The daunger of the Q. person, if that husband shold fraudulently seek hir first, to possesse by treason an other after.

Aunsweres which he maketh to the Objections.

The ij first he leaveth to the Q. herself to judge as hir heart will direct hir.

The iij is a perill that must have long tyme to frame, and can never be except the Q. and the States be bereft of all sense, a perill in talke but not in dede, as in the K. of Sp. were seen.

The iiijth, if yt shold happen, yet the Q. and he must come together, as K. Php. and Q. Marye did.

To the vth, if yt shold come to passe, and the child born in Engl., than it wilbe honor, and no perill, if he be K. of Fr. and Engl., as heretofore hath been, as he saieth.

To the vjth, no daunger, for the exercise of his religion shold be private to hym self and to a few of his nation. He shall acompany the Q. to hirs; and this, he saieth, can be no perill to the Q. nor her realme, but is only a quarrell piked by thadversaryes of hir marriage, as hath been seen by proffe.

The vijth shall bring gayne rather than losse, his patrymonye being so great. Example K. Philip.

The viijth utterly untrew, for the realme is to be governed only by Engl. Example K. Philip; and so the people have no cause to feare, but be farr from all daunger.

The ixth inferreth a treasonable dealing not to be thought in a Christian Prynce.

Touching the alienating the Low Countryes to the French.

Incommodyties.

1. Suertie to Engl. to have France and the basse contryes in the handes of ij princes: the bringing of them all to Fr., an ille perill to Engl.

2. The encrease of the Fr. force both by land and sea.

3. Greate daunger to all Europe by the to greatnes of France. 4. The perilles, in perticler to the Q., by the Fr. mayntenance of competition, popery, and other factions at home, and withdrawing of Engl. from hir dewties.

5. The disturbyng of the traffique of Engl. and neyghboures at their willes.

6. The stoppe of vent of the inward commodyties, and mutyning of the people who shall lack work.

7. Bringing of the realme into a perpetuall servitude, or worse, which no one commodytie can recompence.

Touching the joyninge of Mounsieur with Don John against thies contryes.

Incommodyties.

1. Either the tyrannizing over thies contryes by the Spaniardes, that will bring many perilles aforesaid; or ells the Q. to make hirself thordring the warre for their defence, which, as he thinketh, she cannot endure, &c.

The only remedy is a peax betweene the K. of Sp. and the States, such as may be sure, which he findeth difficult. If that cannot be, than he seeth not but the States must cast them selfes into the defence of the Q., or the French, wherupon dependeth the perilles aforesaid.

CONFERENCE ON THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE.

[This document, purporting to be the heads of a conference regarding the Queen's Marriage with the Duke of Anjou, is indorsed by Sir Walter Mildmay, but the body of it is not in his hand-writing. By the list of the Commissioners, which he supplies, it appears that he was not one of them, and probably was not present. We may infer therefore that he derived the materials of the document from one of the Commissioners, perhaps Sir F. Walsingham or Dr. Wilson, who were Secretaries. The balance of the argument seems decidedly against the proposed union. In Murdin's State Papers, p. 355, is a letter from Beale, dated from Paris, 30th August, 1581, in which he mentions having received "her Majesty's own particular letters" for his instruction on the subject of her marriage, but he gives no information regarding their contents. The Duke of Anjou came publicly to England in 1581.]

Indorsed "1579. The somme of the principall headdes remembred in the conference at Westm' towching the Q. mariage with the Duke of Anjow, the Fr. K's Brother. The Commissioners,

The meanes to assure her Matie of peax, and to prèserue hir person and state from daunger.

1. Assistance of the Religion in France.

To geve helpe in the case of the Low Countryes.

To mayntene our Religion, Lawes and Justice inviolably.
To concert with Scotland and their King fast and lovingly,
with plawsible termes and good and commodyous actions.
To make an Act of Parliament to disable all such persons
from the clayme of the Crowne as shall by any meanes in-
terrupt her Maties quiett or endanger her person.

Perilles growing by the mariage.

The difficultie of the contynuance of our Religion.

The feare that may be justely conceyved that he will bring the Realme into his owne possession.

The daunger of separation, if he shold be called by his brother's deceasse into his owne kyngdom.

England will abyde no Viceroy.

The great charge that this Realme shalbe at for his maynte

naunce.

2. The discontentment of the people to be governed by a

straunger.

The suspicion of treason in seking her Matie, to professe [possesse?] an other afterwardes.

The daunger of fallyng into foreign warres by maynteyning at her Maties greate charges this princes quarrelles where

soever.

The encouragement that the Scottes might take against us in hope of the favour of the Frenche, with whom they haue allwayes had auncyent league and alliance, greately to our prejudice and disquyett.

The Low Countreyes wilbe jaylous of the matche, the Germaynes wilbe displeased, and Spayne will not abyde the

greatenes of thies twoo kingdomes, growen so mightie by this alliance.

The people shalbe more taxed than heretofore, which they will murmur at, the rather bicause it is by the meanes of a straunger.

The Commodyties growing by the mariage.

The gayning of the Frenche by this alliance.

The suppressing of sedition, which may otherwise ensue by popery in this Realme.

Spayne shall not dare to trouble or offend hir Matie.

Hir Matie may, by this Princes helpe, wyn to her the possession of the Low Countryes.

3. The comfort which may redownde to the Realme by the blessed fruict of hir Maties body.

Spayne shalbe glad to take reasonable condytions of the Low
Countryes.

Perilles ensuing by leaving this Alliance.

Their griefes already conceyved against us.
The alienating of Scotland from us.

Mounsieur will seke the King of Spaynes daughter, wherby
his faction shold cease in France, and he should happely
have the Low Countreyes for his wiffes dower.

Spayne and France wold then sett up the Q. of Scottes.
They would reduce the Low Countreyes to obedience.

They wold practise to wyn the King of Scottes to them, and
than marry hym at their pleasure.

They wold supplant the Religion in Europe, and begynne at the roote.

If the Papistes in England had but one of thes Kinges to back them, they wold be ready to rebell.

The Q. of Scottes being in England wold further the motion. When hope of issue shall fayle, her subjectes will begynne to adorare solem orientem.