st Christian king that the
emperor's ambassador has communicated with the old queen. The emperor sends
a message to her and to her daughter, that he will not return to Spain till
he has seen them restored to their rights.

"The people are so much attached to the said ladies that they will rise in
rebellion, and join any prince who will undertake their quarrel. You
probably know from other quarters the intensity of this feeling. It is
shared by all classes, high and low, and penetrates even into the royal
household.

"The nation is in marvellous discontent. Every one but the relations of the
present queen, is indignant on the ladies' account. Some fear the overthrow
of religion; others fear war and injury to trade. Up to this time, the
cloth, hides, wool, lead, and other merchandise of England have found
markets in Flanders, Spain, and Italy; now it is thought navigation will be
so dangerous that English merchants must equip their ships for war if they
trade to foreign countries; and besides the risk of losing all to the
enemy, the expense of the armament will swallow the profits of the voyage.
In like manner, the emperor's subjects and the pope's subjects will not be
able to trade with England. The coasts will be blockaded by the ships of
the emperor and his allies; and at this moment men's fears are aggravated
by the unseasonable weather throughout the summer, and the failure of the
crops. There is not corn enough for half the ordinary consumption.

"The common people, foreseeing these inconveniences, are so violent against
the queen, that they say a thousand shameful things of her, and of all who
have supported her in her intrigues. On them is cast the odium of all the
calamities anticipated from the war.

"When the war comes, no one doubts that the people will rebel as much from
fear of the dangers which I have mentioned, as from the love which is felt
for the two ladies, and especially for the Princess. She is so entirely
beloved that, notwithstanding the law made at the last Parliament, and the
menace of death contained in it, they persist in regarding her as Princess.
No Parliament, they say, can make her anything but the king's daughter,
born in marriage; and so the king and every one else regarded her before
that Parliament.

"Lately, when she was removed from Greenwich, a vast crowd of women, wives
of citizens and others, walked before her at their husbands' desire,
weeping and crying that notwithstanding a