. 255.]

But the darkest season has its days of sunshine, and Mary's trials
were for the present over. If the statesmen were disloyal, the clergy
and the Universities appreciated her services to the church, and, in
the midst of her trouble, Oxford congratulated her on having been
raised up for the restoration of life and light to England.[331] More
pleasant than this pleasant flattery was the arrival, on the 19th of
June, of the Marquis delas Navas from Spain, with the news that by
that time the prince was on his way.

[Footnote 331: Nuper cum litterarum studia pene
extincta jacerent cum salus omnium exigua spe
dubiaque penderet quis non fortunae incertos eventus
extimescebat? Quis non ingemuit et arsit dolore?
Pars studia deserere cogebantur; pars huc illucque
quovis momento rapiebantur; nec ulli certus ordo
suumve propositum diu constabat.--The happy change
of the last year was then contrasted with proper
point and prolixity.--The University of Oxford to
the Queen: _MS. Domestic, Mary_, vol. iv.]

It was even so. Philip had submitted to his unwelcome {p.139}
destiny, and six thousand troops being required pressingly by the
emperor in the Low Countries, they attended him for his escort. A
paper of advices was drawn for the prince's use by Renard, directing
him how to accommodate himself to his barbarous fortune. Neither
soldiers nor mariners would be allowed to land. The noblemen,
therefore, who formed his retinue, were advised to bring Spanish
musketeers, disguised in liveries, in the place of pages and lacqueys;
their arms could be concealed amidst the baggage. The war would be an
excuse for the noblemen being armed themselves, and the prince, on
landing, should have a shirt of mail under his doublet. As to manner,
he must endeavour to be affable: he would have to hunt with the young
lords, and to make presents to them; and, with whatever difficulty, he
must learn a few words of English, to exchange the ordinary
salutations. As a friend, Renard recommended Paget to him; he would
find Paget "a man of sense."[332]

[Footnote 332: "Homme d'esprit."--Instructions
donnees a Philippe, Prince d'Espagne: _Granvelle
Papers_, vol. iv. p. 267.]

Philip, who was never remarkable f