[**] Elizabeth
next called in the queen of Scots' commissioners; and after observing,
that she deemed it much more decent for their mistress to continue
the conferences, than to require the liberty of justifying herself in
person, she told them, that Mary might either send her reply by a person
whom she trusted, or deliver it herself to some English nobleman, whom
Elizabeth should appoint to wait upon her: but as to her resolution of
making no reply at all, she must regard it as the strongest confession
of guilt, nor could they ever be deemed her friends who advised her to
that method of proceeding.[***] These topics she enforced still more
strongly in a letter which she wrote to Mary herself.[****]
* See note L, at the end of the volume.
** Anderson, vol. iv. part ii. p. 170, etc. Goodall, vol.
ii. p. 254.
*** Anderson, vol. iv. part ii. p. 179, etc. Goodall, vol.
ii p. 268.
**** Anderson, vol. iv part ii. p. 183. Goodall, vol. ii. p.
269.
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