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80 MARY STUART AND THE BABINGTON PLOT
(2) What your opinion is touching the invasion ? whether
any is like tofollowe uppon your apprehension and discovery ?
(3) What your opinion is touching the k. of Scotts of his
affection towards his mother, and his disposition to this
estate ?
(4) What hope you could have had to escape had you hen
able to have gotten into your countrey, what meanes you could
have made to haue moved the people and how they are disposed
in those partes ?
(5) Whether Salisbury had conceived anie matter against
this estate before you broke with him of it. what his deter¬
mination was and what credit and meanes he had to escape
in his owne countrie ?
(6) What your opinion was touching the Earle of Arundell
whether he was privie to these actions, what meanes you had
to procure his safetie and deliuerance upon the execution of
this coniuration ?
(7) What Barnivells opinion was concerning the faciletie
of the attempt upon her maiesties person, what speeche he
had with you after his returns from Richmonde when he saw
her maiestie in the grecne ?
(1) After the apprehension of Ballard the imminent
daunger of discovery of or former proceedings caused that
sodden resolution to be taken against her Matles person
as a last and only refuge. I pourposed so soone as they
had ben gone to the court for the execution of their designe
to haue sent w01 all possible spede into fraunce to signifie
so much, and [to] will the forraine forces to be hastened
in as much expedition and as great strenght as by any
meanes they coulde, directing their landing in sondry
places.
The Earle of Westmerland w01 som forces out of the low
countries shoulde lande in the North parts, all wch countries
I presumed woulde be readie and forward, som part in
regarde of the loue they beare unto his house and name,
others in regard of religion, the comons of those partes
in generall being catholiquely disposed, but all in generall