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221 HE RESIGNS TO PHILIP. 221 kingdom, where, he confidently believed, nothing chapter , . . . XVII. but his presence was wanting to insure success. He completed the perfidious proceeding bj sending an epistle, well garnished with soft and honeyed phrase, to his royal father-in-law. These artifices had their effect, and completely imposed, not only on Louis, but on the more shrewd and suspicious Ferdinand. ^^ On the 8th of January, 1506, Philip and Joanna Phiiipani •' '■ Joanna ein- embarked on board a splendid and numerous arma- "^^rk. da, and set sail from a port in Zealand. A furious tempest scattered the fleet soon after leaving the harbour ; Philip's ship, which took fire in the storm, narrowly escaped foundering ; and it was not with- out great difficulty that they succeeded in bringing her, a miserable wreck, into the English port of Weymouth. ^^ King Henry the Seventh, on learn- ' ing the misfortunes of Philip and his consort, was prompt to show every mark of respect and consid- eration for the royal pair, thus thrown upon his island. They were escorted in magnificent style to Windsor, and detained with dubious hospitality 29 Carbajal, Anales, MS., afio Roman ancestors fastened on the 1506. — Zurita, Anales, torn. vi. character of their African enemy ; lib. 6, cap. 23. — Mariana, Hist. — perhaps with equal justice, de Espana, torn. ii. lib. 28,cap. 16. 30 Joanna, according to Sando- — Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. val, displayed much composure in 292.— Zurita has transcribed the her alarming- situation. When in- whole of this dutiful and most lov- formed by Philip of their danger, ing epistle. Ubi supra. she attired herself in her richest Guicciardini considers Philip as dress, securing a considerable sum only practising the lessons he had of money to her person, that her learned in Spain, " le arti Spa- body, if found, might be recognised, gnuole." (Istoria, lib. 7.) The and receive the obsequies suited to phrase would seem to have been her rank. Hist, del Emp. Carlos proverbial with the Italians, like V., torn. i. p. 10. the " Punica fides," which their