For this reason, and for the 4000 pounds, he made no strong protest against her trial.

One of his agents in London--the wretched accomplice in his father's murder, Archibald Douglas--was consenting to her execution.

James himself thought that strict imprisonment was the best course; but the Presbyterian Angus declared that Mary "could not be blamed if she had caused the Queen of England's throat to be cut for detaining her so unjustly imprisoned." The natural man within us entirely agrees with Angus! A mission was sent from Holyrood, including James's handsome new favourite, the Master of Gray, with his cousin, Logan of Restalrig, who sold the Master to Walsingham.

The envoys were to beg for Mary's life.
The Master had previously betrayed her; but he was not wholly lost, and in London he did his best, contrary to what is commonly stated, to secure her life.

He thus incurred the enmity of his former allies in the English Court, and, as he had foreseen, he was ruined in Scotland--his _previous_ letters, hostile to Mary, being betrayed by his aforesaid cousin, Logan of Restalrig.
On February 8, 1567, ended the lifelong tragedy of Mary Stuart.