the Earl of Shrewsbury, was unwell.

Mary, Queen of Scots, never forgot Middlemore's role in the events of 1568. She mentioned in April 1583 to the Earl of Shrewsbury and Robert Beale how she had instructed her allies in Scotland not to fight her enemies when the opportunity was theirs and so lost her advantage. Mary also relied on what Middlemore had said to her in 1568 as a guarantee of Elizabeth's hospitality to her