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                                BOOK I
                           PHILIP OF SPAIN.

        I. HOW A MARRIAGE WAS AGREED UPON BETWEEN MARY QUEEN      1
             OF ENGLAND, AND DON PHILIP, PRINCE OF SPAIN.
       II. HOW THE SPANISH FLEET ENTERED THE SOLENT SEA.         17
      III. OF THE AFFRONT OFFERED TO THE SPANIARDS BY THE        22
             LORD HIGH ADMIRAL; AND OF THE PRINCE’S ARRIVAL
             AT SOUTHAMPTON.
       IV. SOUTHAMPTON IN 1554.                                  36
        V. HOW THE PRINCE OF SPAIN O