where the princess's interest was strong. Sir Henry Jernegan, one of the officers engaged in this levy, had the counge to put off to the squadron in an open boat, and the ability to persuade the whole command to declare for Queen Mary. At about the same time the Warden of the Cinque Ports took the same course, and the result of these and other pronouncements was that opposition ceased before blood had been shed, and that Mary mounted the throne peaceably. t In the following year, on March th, she appointed William, first Lord Howard of Effinghan, to be Lord High Admiral? In the meantime, Captain William Wynter lud been sent with a squadron to Ostend to briug to England the ambassadors of the Emperor Charles V., ;vho ;vere charged to negotiate the pre- liminaqes of a marriage herween his son, Philip of Spain, and the new queen? The emperor on this occasion sent XVynter a chaiu of gold, which upon his retm'n to England the honest seaman showed to Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, who exclaimed: "For this gold chain you have sold your country. "' Such indeed was the uupopularity of the proposed match that Sir Thomas Wy;tt's M)ortive rebellion was the instant outcome of the arrival of the umbassadors. ]But nothing sufficed to stay the executi,m of the project, and in the stunruer of 1554, Philip with an imposing fleet of one htmdred and sixty sail set out for Eugland. Effingham, with twenty-eight ships, had ere this beguu to cruise iu the Channel, nomiually to guard the trade, hut really to welcome the arrival of the future King Cousort. :He welcomed it in strange fashion. ]Philip came up Channel ;vith the Spanish flag at his mMn, and when he sighted Effingham's sqmdron, proudly kept the flag flying in expectation that Erringham ;vould salute it. The Lord High AdmirM did salute, but it was with a shotted gun. It did not seem fitting to him that any foreigner, no matter his rank and pretentious, should enter the seas of the Queen of England without paying the accustomned deference to her rights there. The shot caused Philip to strike his colours and 1o;ver his topsails, the marriage being too importaut a part of his plaus to permit of his then disputing the English claims; and the gMlant Effingham at

J, atrnal of P. C. (lIaynes), 156; Stowe, t;11, 612; Ilolinshed, ii. 1067; Godwin, 

268, 271; Speed, . "Pat. I Mary, 7; ' Fa'dera,' xv. 3S2. s Holinshed, ii. 1106; Strype, iii. 59.

Both Wynter and Tllrogtnorton nearly suflbred for this. The trial is in 

Ht,linshed.