completed--

1. That no foreigner, under any circumstances, should be admitted to
any office in the royal household, in the army, the forts, or the
fleet.

2. That the queen should not be taken abroad without her own consent;
and that the children--should children be born--should not be carried
out of England without consent of parliament, even though among them
might be the heir of the Spanish empire.

3. Should the queen die childless, the prince's connection with the
realm should be at an end.

4. The jewel-house and treasury should be wholly under English
control, and the ships of war should not be removed into a foreign
port.

5. The prince should maintain the existing treaties between England
and France; and England should not be involved, directly or
indirectly, in the war between France and the empire.[188]

[Footnote 188: Marriage Treaty between Mary, Queen
of England, and Philip of Spain: Rymer, vol. vi.]

These demands were transmitted to Brussels, where they were {p.083}
accepted without difficulty, and further objection could not be
ventured unless constraint was laid upon the queen. The sketch of the
treaty, with the conditions attached to it, was submitted to such of
the Lords and Commons as remained in London after the dissolution of
parliament, and the result was a sullen acquiescence.

An embassy was immediately announced as to be sent from Flanders.
Count Egmont, M. de Courieres, the Count de Lalaing, and M. de Nigry,
Chancellor of the Golden Fleece, were coming over as plenipotentiaries
of the emperor. Secret messengers went off to Rome to hasten the
dispensations--a dispensation for Mary to marry her cousin, and a
dispensation which also was found necessary permitting the ceremony to
be performed by a bishop in a state of schism. The marriage could be
solemnised at once on their arrival, the ambassadors standing as
Philip's representatives, while Sir Philip Hoby, Bonner, Bedford, and
Lord Derby would go to Spain to receive the prince's oaths, and escort
him to England. Again and again the queen pressed haste. Ash-Wednesday
fell on the 6th of February, and in Lent she might not marry. Renard
assured her that the prince should be in her arms before Septuagesima,
and all her trials would be over. The worst danger which he now
anticipated was from some unpleasant collision which might arise after
the prince's landing; and he had advised the emperor to have