[Footnote 489: Il me fauldroit faire ung merveilleux discours pour vous rendre compte de tous les propoz qui font dans les dictes lettres. Je vous diray seulment ce qui plus tousche et regarde le lieu ou vous estes. Et premierement la royne a tant enchante et ensorcele ce beau jeune prince son mary que de luy avoir faict croyre ung an entier qu'elle estoit grosse pour le retenir pres d'elle, dont il se trouve a present si confus et fasche qu'il n'a plus delibere de retourner habiter ceste terre, promettant a tous ses serviteurs que s'il peult estre une fois en Espaigne qu'il n'en sortira plus a si maulvaise occasion, etc....--Le Protonotaire de Noailles a M. de Noailles: _Ambassades_, vol. v. p. 136.] Before the meeting of parliament, a letter was published, addressed to the Lords of the Council, by a certain John Bradford.[490] The writer accounted for his knowledge of the secrets which he had to tell, by saying that he had lived in the household of one of the Spanish noblemen who were in attendance on Philip; that he had learnt the language unknown to his master, and had thus overheard unguarded conversations. He had read letters addressed to Philip, and letters written by him and by his confidential friends; and he was able to say, as a thing heard with his own ears, and seen with his own eyes, that the "Spaniards minded nothing less than the subversion of the English commonwealth." In fact, he repeated the rumours of the summer, only more circumstantially, and with fuller details. Under pretence of improving the fortifications, Philip intended to obtain command of the principal harbours and ports; he would lay cannon on the land side, and gradually bring in Spanish troops, the queen playing into his hands; and as soon as peace could be made with France, he would have the command of the fleet and the sea, and could do what he pleased.[491] [Footnote 490: Not the martyr; he had been despatched by Bonner among the victims of the summer; but a person otherwise-known.]