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MARY THE FIRST. yjs Earl of Bedford and Lord Fitzwaters were dispatched to Spain to conduct Philip to England; the lord admiral, with twenty- eight ships, having for three months previously been employed in guarding against his meeting any interruption on his passage across the sea from any other state. Philip embarked at Co- runna, with a fleet of one hundred and fifty sail, and arrived at Southampton on the 20th of July. He was the first man of the fleet who set foot on the British shore, on touching which he drew his sword and bore it in his hand. The Earl of Arun- del, lord steward to the queen, immediately invested him with the George and Garter; the mayor of Southampton pre- sented him the keys of the town, and the lord chancellor was sent by Mary to receive him and to announce that she herself was on her route to Winchester to welcome him in person. He tarried at Southampton from Friday until Monday, when he set forth for Winchester to meet his future bride, attended by a vast train of English nobles, and by the Dukes of Alva, Medina Cceli, the Admiral of Castile, the Marquises of Bur- gos, Pescara, and several other Spaniards of high distinction, among whom was the Bishop of Cuenca. Philip brought with him a vast treasure, two cart-loads of coin and several chests of bullion. It was observed of him that, although affecting to be civil to the English, he never took off his hat to any of the nobility. In proportion to the chagrin evinced by Mary at the repeated and vexatious delays of Philip's coming — a chagrin revealed with somewhat less of maidenly reserve and queenly dignity than might be wished — was now her satisfac- tion at his arrival. She forgot that he had never written to her, nor displayed any desire to expedite his nuptials with her. The marriage was solemnized at Winchester, on the 25th -of July, being the feast of St. James, the tutelar saint of Spain, Gardiner bestowing the nuptial benediction. Previous to the ceremony the imperial ambassador from Spain presented Philip with the gift of the Two Sicilies, bestowed on him by the em- peror, his father, that Mary might wed a king and not a prince ; and after it, Garter king-of-arms, attended by the heralds, proclaimed their styles in Latin French and English as King and Queen of England, France, Ireland, Naples and Jerusalem. The royal pair proceeded to Windsor, where Philip and the Earl of Sussex were installed knights of the Garter, and en- tered London on the 18th of August, where triumphal arches and other expensive demonstrations of rejoicing were exhibited