Note 18 — Chapter I · INTRODUCTORY 1552-1553
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Philip wrote to his father, “If the marriage should be proposed for your Majesty, that would be the best course. But if your Majesty persists in the view you state to me in your letter and you think better to treat of the marriage for me, you know already that as an entirely obedient son I have no other will than yours, and above all on an affair of this importance. I therefore leave it to your Majesty to act as you deem best.”—MS. Simancas. Retiro estancia y muerte del Emperador, etc.