to be at Monk's devotion; the ambassador was recalled, and broke
his heart."

Such were the effects of the infidelity of the wife of General Monk!

PHILIP AND MARY.

Houssaie, in his Memoires, vol. i. p. 261, has given the following
curious particulars of this singular union:--

"The second wife of Philip was Mary Queen of England; a virtuous
princess (Houssaie was a good catholic), but who had neither youth
nor beauty. This marriage was as little happy for the one as for
the other. The husband did not like his wife, although she doted on
him; and the English hated Philip still more than he hated them.
Silhon says, that the rigour which he exercised in England against
heretics partly hindered Prince Carlos from succeeding to that
crown, and for _which purpose_ Mary had invited him in case she
died childless!"--But no historian speaks of this pretended
inclination, and is it probable that Mary ever thought proper to
call to the succession of the English throne the son of the Spanish
Monarch? This marriage had made her nation detest her, and in the
last years of her life she could be little satisfied with him, from
his marked indifference for her. She well knew that the Parliament
would never consent to exclude her sister Elizabeth, whom the
nobility loved for being more friendly to the new religion, and
more hostile to the house of Austria.

In the Cottonian Library, Vespasian F. III. is preserved a note of
instructions in the handwriting of Queen Mary, of which the
following is a copy. It was, probably, written when Philip was just
seated on the English throne.

"Instructions for my lorde Previsel.

"Firste, to tell the Kinge the whole state of this realme, wt all
things appartaynyng to the same, as myche as ye knowe to be trewe.

"Seconde, to obey his commandment in all thyngs.

"Thyrdly, in all things he shall aske your aduyse to declare your
opinion as becometh a faythfull conceyllour to do.

"MARY the Quene."

Houssaie proceeds: "After the death of Mary, Philip sought Elizabeth in
marriage; and she, who was yet unfixed at the beginning of her reign,
amused him at first with hopes. But as soon as she unmasked herself to
the pope, she laughed at Philip, telling the Duke of Feria, his
ambassador, that her conscience would not