This appears, not only from his letters, above mentioned, to Queen Elizabeth and her ministers, but by his secret acknowledgment to Bannister, his most trusty confidant.
See State Trials, vol.i.p.

81.

In the conferences between the duke, Secretary Lidington, and the bishop of Ross, all of them zealous partisans of that princess, the same thing is always taken for granted.
Ibid.p.74, 75.

See, further, MS.

in the Advocates' library, A.3, 28, p.