HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 399 



Castile into the fraternity of the Garter, and for a 

 reciprocal had his son the prince admitted to the 

 order of the Golden Fleece, he accompanied King 

 Philip and his queen to the city of London, where 

 they were entertained with the greatest magnificence 

 and triumph, that could be upon no greater warning. 

 And as soon as the Earl of Suffolk had been con 

 veyed to the Tower, which was the serious part, the 

 jollities had an end, and the kings took leave. 

 Nevertheless during their being here, they in sub 

 stance concluded that treaty, which the Flemings 

 term &quot;intercursus malus,&quot; and bears date at Windsor; 

 for that there be some things in it, more to the ad 

 vantage of the English than of them ; especially, for 

 that the free-fishing of the Dutch upon the coasts 

 and seas of England, granted in the treaty of &quot; un- 

 &quot; decimo,&quot; was not by this treaty confirmed. All ar 

 ticles that confirm former treaties being precisely and 

 warily limited and confirmed to matter of commerce 

 only, and not otherwise. 



It was observed, that the great tempest which 

 drave Philip into England, blew down the golden 

 eagle from the spire of Pauls, and in the fall it fell 

 upon a sign of the black eagle, which was in Pauls 

 church-yard, in the place where the school-house now 

 standeth, and battered it, and brake it down : which 

 was a strange stooping of a hawk upon a fowl. 

 This the people interpreted to be an ominous prog 

 nostic upon the imperial house, which was, by inter 

 pretation also, fulfilled upon Philip, the emperor s 

 son, not only in the present disaster of the tempest, 



