Note 110 — Chapter IV · 1555-1558

In a pathetic and submissive letter (Cotton, Titus B. 2, 57, British Museum) Mary beseeches Philip to allow her to defer the matter until he comes to England. Her doubts on the matter seem to have been partly inspired by jealousy of her sister, who if she married Emmanuel Philibert in Flanders would be near Philip, for she adds: “If you will not defer it I shall be jealous of your Highness, which would be worse for me than death—I have already begun to feel uneasy.”