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By Rev. 0. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, M.A., F.R.S., C.M.Z.S., 



&c. 



(PLATES A, B, C, D.) 



!HE coming of Philip Archduke of Austria and 

 King of Castile with Joanna his wife, eldest 

 daughter of Ferdinand King of Aragon and 

 Isabella Queen of Castile, to Weymouth in 

 the year 1505 is a matter of English history. 

 Their appearance at Weymouth was at once 

 brought to the notice of Sir Thomas 

 Trenchard of Wolfeton, the High Sheriff of 

 the County of Dorset, by the Weymouth 

 authorities, who were naturally alarmed by the appearance 

 off their port of a Spanish Fleet of 80 ships. Sir Thomas 

 Trenchard seems to have immediately put himself in com- 

 munication with the Government Authorities ki London, 

 and himself became the host at Wolfeton of Philip and Joan, 



