127/241 59. They even asserted that the house in which they met was surrounded with armed men. 108 Mary's complaints of the queen's partiality in admitting Murray to a conference was a mere pretext, in order to break off the conference. She indeed employs that reason in her order for that purpose, (see Goodall, vol.ii.p. 184;) but in her private letter, her commissioners are directed to make use of that order to prevent her honor from being attacked. |