[Footnote 334: Wotton's Correspondence: _French
MSS._ State Paper Office. The title of the Queen of
Scots was, perhaps, the difficulty; or Carew may
have felt that he could do nothing of real
consequence, while he might increase the difficulty
of protecting Elizabeth.]

[Footnote 335: Noailles to the King of France, July
23: _Ambassades_, vol. iii.]

The queen was on her way to Winchester, where she arrived the next
morning, and either in attendance upon her, or waiting at Southampton,
was almost the entire peerage of England. Having made up their minds
to endure the marriage, the lords resolved to give Philip the welcome
which was due to the husband of their sovereign, and in the uncertain
temper of the people, their presence might be necessary to protect his
person from insult or from injury.

It was an age of glitter, pomp, and pageantry; the anchors were no
sooner down, than a barge was in readiness, with twenty rowers in the
queen's colours of green and white; and Arundel, Pembroke, Shrewsbury,
Derby, and other lords went off to the vessel which carried the royal
standard of Castile. Philip's natural manner was cold and stiff, but
he had been schooled into graciousness. Exhausted by his voyage, he
accepted delightedly the instant invitation to go on shore, and he
entered the barge accompanied by the Duke of Alva. A crowd of
gentlemen was waiting to receive him at the landing-place. As he
stepped out--not perhaps without some natural nervousness and sharp
glances round him--the whole assemblage knelt. A salute was fired from
the batteries, and Lord Shrewsbury presented him with the order of the
Garter.[336] An enthusiastic eye-witness thus describes Philip's
appearance:--

[Footnote 336: Antiquaries dispute whether Philip
received the Garter on board his own vessel or
after he came on shore. Lord Shrewsbury himself
settles the important point. "I, the Lord Steward,"
Shrewsbury wrote to Wotton, "at his coming to land,
presented the Garter to him."--_French MSS. Mary_,
State Paper Office.]

{p.141} "Of visage he is well favoured, with a broad forehead and
grey eyes, straight-nosed and manly countenance. From the forehead to
the point of his