clothed in a musk colour silk suit, embroidered with
gold, a golilla (or ruflF) about his neck, cuflfe on his
hands, which were clasped on his breast, holding a
globe and a cross on it therein ; his cloak was of the
same, with his sword by his sidfe ; stockings, garters,
and shoe-strings of the same, and a pair of white
shoes on his feet. In the room were erected six altars
for the time, upon which stood six candlesticks,
with six wax candles lighted, and in the middle of
each altar a crucifix ; the forepart of each altar was
covered with black velvet, embroidered with silver.
Before the throne a rail went across from one side
of the room to the other. At the two lower corners
of the throne, at each side, stood a nobleman, the
one holding an imperial crown, the other the
sceptre; and on each side of the throne six high
candlesticks with six tapers in them. The doors of
that room were kept by the Mayor-domo of the
King and Queen then in waiting, and the outward
by the Italian guard.
On the Saturday night, he was carried upon a
bier, hung betwixt two mules, upon which the coffin
with the King's body was laid, covered with a cover-
ing of cloth of gold, and at every corner of the bier
was placed a high crystal lanthorn with lighted
tapers in it. He was attended by some grandees,
who rode next after him, and other noblemen in
coaches, with between two and three hundred on
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horseback, of whom a great part carried tapers
lighted in their hands : this was the company, besides
footmen. When the King's body came to the
Convent of the Escurial, the friars of that convent
stood at the gate, and there, according to the insti-
tution of the place, performed the ceremonies as
follow* The priors asked the grandees, who carried
the King on their shoulders, for none other must
touch him, * Who is in that coffin, and what do they
there demand?* Upon which the Sumiller de
Corps,* who is the Duke de Medina de las Torres,
answered, * It is the body of Philip the Fourth of
Spain, whom we here bring for you to lay in his own
tomb/ Upon which the Duke delivered the
Queen's letter, as Regent of the kingdom, to testify
that it was her Majesty's command that the King's
body should be there; buried. Then the Prior read
the letter, and accompanied the body before the high
altar, where it was for some time placed, till they had
performed the usual ceremonies for that time appro-
priated. After which the grandees took up the
corpse again, and carried it down into the Pantheon,
into which as soon as they were entered, the Prior
demanded of the Duke the covering of the King's
body as his fee.
Then demanded he the keys, upon which the
• Properly, the Groom of the Stole ; ** it cuyo cargo estd la
asistencia al Rey en su retrete/' — Die. de la AcatU
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Duke delivered him his, as Sumiller de Corps, and
then the Prior's own sent him by the Queen, and the
Mayor-domo then in waiting delivered him his. The
Prior having received these three keys, demanded
franca* of the Duke and Mayor-domo, that in that
coffin was the body of Philip the Fourth ; and when
they had done, they there left the body with the
Prior, who after the body's lying some time in the
place where the infants are buried, placed it in his
own tomb.
My husband with all his family and coaches
were put into mourning for Philip the Fourth of
Spain.
October the 4th following, I WMted upon the
Queen to give her Majesty pesamef of the King's
death, who received me with great grace and favour,
as likewise did the King and the Empress, who were
both present.
On the 8th of October my husband and I, with
all our family and son, being the first time he went
out of doors, went to the Pla(a Mayor, to hear and
see King Charles the Second proclaimed by the Duke
de Medina de las Torres, who was very richly appa-
relled in a silk suit, embroidered with silver and
gold, set with diamond buttons : he was accompanied
by most of the nobles in the town on horseback, as
• i^.j puirta franca : admittance,
t G>mpliineat8 of condolence.
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he himself was. In his right hand he carried the
King's royal standard, and by his left side rode the
Mayor of the town. The Heralds that rode before
went first upon the scaffold, which was there made
for that purpose before the King's balcony, where he
was wont to see the juego de toros. The scaffold was
covered with carpets. On each side of the Duke
stood the Heralds, and on his left hand stood the
Mayor, and by the Heralds two Notaries. The King
was proclaimed in five places ; at the Court above
named, at the Descai^as Reale, at the Town House,
at the Gate of Guadajara, and at the Palace.
November the 9th, I went to give the Queen the
parabien of the King's birth-day, who, the 6th of this
month, completed four years of age. Her Majesty
received me with great grace and favour, causing the
King to come in and receive of me the parabien of
his aHos likewise.
The 14th of this month I went to wait on the
Camerara Mayor and the Marquis de los V6iez, the
King's Aya,* from both of whom I received great
kindnesses.
December the 17th, 1665, my husband, upon the
part of our King his master, and the Duke de Medina
de las Torres, on the part of his Catholic Majesty,
did conclude and signed together the peace between
England and Spain, and the articles for the adjust-
• Governor or tutor.
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ment between Spain and Portiigal, which articles
were cavilled at by the Lord Chancellor Clarendon
and his party, that they might have an opportunity
to send the Earl of Sandwich out of the way from
the Parliament, which then sat, and who, as he and
his friends feared, would be severely punished for
his cowardice in the Dutch fight. He neither under-
stood the customs of the Court, nor the language,
nor indeed any thing but a vicious life ; and thus was
he shuffled into your father's employment to reap
the benefit of his five years* negociation of the peace
between England, Spain, and Portugal : and after
above thirty years studying state affairs, and many of
them in the Spanish Court : so much are Ambassa-
dors slaves to the public ministers at home, who
often, through envy or ignorance, ruin them !
December the 23rd, I went to give the Queen the
parabien of her aHos^ whereof she had completed
thirty-one. I likewise gave joy to the Empress and
the King, who were both then present.
The 6th of January, 1666, twelfth-day, stilo novo^
my husband sent Mr. John Price, one of his secre-
taries, to Lisbon, to advertise that King, by the
Conde de Castel Melhor, of his intended journey the
week following.
On the 14th of this present January, the Duke of
Medina de las Torres wrote a letter to my husband,
by the command of her Catholic Majesty, which
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said, that for the great kindness and pains he had
and did take for the accommodating a peace between
England and Spain, and procuring a truce for thirty
years between the crowns of Spain and Portugal,
that, on the day of the ratification thereof, her
Majesty did give him * an hundred thousand pieces-
of-eight, and likewise for a further expression of her
Majesty's kindness, to me fifty thousand pieces-of-
eight.
The 1 6th of January, 1666, being twelfth-day,
English account, my husband began his journey
firom Madrid to Portugal. The day before he went,
her Catholic Majesty sent the Marquis Aytona to
oflFer a set of her Majesty's machos to carry his litter,
and another set for his coach, but my husband
refused both, with many humble thanks to her
Majesty for so great grace and honour done him,
which he refused upon no other score but the con-
sideration of the length of the journey, and the bad-
ness of the way, which the time of the year caused,
which would expose the beasts to that hazard, as he
* These gratifications were never paid, because my Lord Sand-
wich was sent to receive what advantage he could make. But
the body of the peace being concluded before by my husband, he
received very small advantage thereby ; but had my husband lived,
he would, through their justice and kindness to him, for his great
wisdom and indefiitigable pains in procuring a triple peace between
the three crowns of England, Spain, and Portugal, have received
a sum.
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could not satisfy himself to put them in ; and
although my husband was next day pressed again to
receive this favour, yet he refused it with much
respect to her Majesty, for the forenamed reasons,
likewise the Duke de Medina de l^s Torres sent
two sets of very brave machos to convey my husband
to Portugal, which he refused with many thanks to
his Excellency, upon the same accoimt he had done
those formerly to her Majesty. My husband carried
none of his own horses or mules, but hired all he
used for himself or his retinue. He went in his
own litter, and carried one of his own coaches with
him, and five sumpters, covered with his own sumpter
cloths. His retinue were : — Mr. Fanshawe, Chief
Secretary ; Mr. Price, gone befoie to Lisbon ; Mr.
Cooper, Gentleman of the Horse ; Mr. Bagshawe,
Chaplain ; Mr. Ashburnham, Mr. Parry, Mr. Creigh-
ton, Mr. Eyres, Steward ; Mr. Weeden, Mr. Jemmet,
Mr. Bumstead, Pages ; Mr. Hellow, Butler ;
William, a Cook; Francis, a Groom; Frances, a
Laundress, and four Spanish footmen.
To every five mules went a mofo^ and a sobrestante
over all. Her Majesty sent an alguazil of the court
with my husband through Spain, to provide him
lodgings, and to assist him in all other occasions
belonging to his journey. I accompanied my hus-
band a league out of town in our coach of state ; then
he entered his litter, and so began his journey.
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Within an hour after I was returned to my house,
the Duke and Duchess de Medina de las Torres sent
each of them a gentleman with very kind messages
to me on the part of their Excellencies.
The 17th, came the Master of the Ceremonies to
see me, and offered the services of this Court, with
high compliments and much kindness; the i8th,
came the Duke of Aveyro to see me, and afterwards
the Marquis of Trucifal ; the 19th, came to see me
the Baron of L*Isola*s lady ; the 20th of January, I
received a letter from my husband at Toledo ; the
26th, the Marquis de Liche came to visit me ; the
28th, the Duchess de Aveyro sent a gentleman to
me, to excuse her not coming to see me, by reason
of her being with child, and not having stirred out
of her chamber from the time she had conceived
with child ; the 29th I received a letter from my
husband, from Frexenal.
The 2nd of February, the Duke de Medina de las
Torres sent to me Don Nicolas Navas, with letters
from her Catholic Majesty herself to my husband,
and putting up the packet here before me, inclosed
my letters therein, I giving a cover, and sealing it
with my seal, and a passport to the post that carried
it, to come and go : all which was required of me by
his Excellency, who was pleased to continue this for
me every post that he sent during my husband^s stay
in Portugal.
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The 1 2th of February, the Duchess of Albu-
querque sent a gentleman to excuse her not visiting
me, her Excellency being sick of a fever. This
night likewise the Duke sent a second post to my
husband as before. The 13th, Father Patricio came
to visit me, from the Duke; the 17th died the
Queen-mother of Portugal ; the 20th, the Duke
despatched a third post to my husband. The 23rd,
the Duke and his Duchess came to visit me in very
great state, having six coaches and two sedans to
wait on them, and above a hundred gentlemen and
attendants. The 27 th, one of the three posts re-
turned from my husband ; another on the 2nd of
March ; the third on the loth.
On the 8th of March, 1666, stib novo^ my husband
returned from Lisbon to this Court, with all his
family in very good health, God be praised ! I went
with my children two leagues out of town, to Ricon,
to meet him. He brought in his company Sir Robert
Southwell, an enviado from our King to Portugal
and Spain, if need so required. My husband enter-
tained him at his house three weeks and odd days.
Upon the 26th of March, came a letter from
Corufia, advertising this Court of the Earl of Sand-
wiches arrival, as Extraordinary Ambassador from
our King to his Catholic Majesty.
Sunday the 12th of April, I took my leave of the
Queen of Spain, and Empress, and the King, and
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the next day of the Gimarera Mayor, and of the
King's Aya.
The 13th of April, returned from hence a gentle-
man named Mr. Weeden, who came hither on the
6th of the same month, bringing letters to this Co\xrt
and my husband from his Lord, the Earl of Sandwich,
and likewise a list of the Extraordinary Ambassador's
family, which was as follows : —
Mr. Sidney Montague, his son; Sir Charles
Herbert, Mr. Steward, Mr. Godolphin, Secretary
to the Embassy; Mr. Worden, Mr. Bedles, Mr.
Q)tterrel, Mr. Bridges, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Melham,
Mr. Stuard, Mr. Linch, Mr. Boddie, Interpreter;
Mr. Parker, Mr. Shere, Mr. Moore, Chaplain ; The
Steward ; Captain Ferrer, Gentleman of the Horse ;
Mr. William Ferrer, Mr. Gateley, Clergyman ; Mr.
Gibbs, Mr. Boreman, Clerk of the Kitchen ; Mr.
Lond, Mr. Veleam, Mr. Mallard ; Mr. Richard
Jarald, Mr. Joseph Chaumond, Under Secretaries;
Francis Paston, Confectioner; Henry Pyman, Butler;
Gentleman, Mr. Cooke; Balfoure and Attenchip,
two Cooks ; AUion Thompson, Trumpeter ; William
Killegrew, Thomas Rice, William Rich, Francis
Warrington, James Ashton, Mr. Place, John Beverley,
Briggs, Richard Cooper, Mr. Kerke, Mr. Churchill,
Mr. Jeflfcreys, Mr. Crown, Pages, ten ; Mr. Nicholas
Neto, Mr. Righton, Edward Hooton, Richard Russel,
Andrew Daniel; Peacock, Dennis, Footmen; Thomas
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Gibson, Thomas Williams, Josias Brown, Caspar, el
negro ; Nathaniel Bennet ; the Nurse, her Husband,
two Maids, Nicholas Bennet, Henry Mitchell, and
John Goods.
On the 14th I took my leave of the Duchess de
Medina de las Torres, the Marquesa de Trucifal,
and the Condessa de Torres Vedras. On the 15th,
I took my leave of the Duchess de Aveiro, who gave
my daughter Katharine a jewel of twenty-seven
emeralds ; and to my daughter Margaret a crystal
box set in gold, and a large silver box of amber
pastilles to burn ; and to my daughter Ann a crystal
bottle, with a gold neck, full of amber water, and a
silver box of filagree ; and to my daughter Betty a
little trunk of silver wire, made in the Indies. This
day I likewise visited the Marquesa de Liche, and
daughter-in-law of the Almirante of Castilla, the
Baron de Llsola^s lady, and Don Diego Tinoco's
lady, who had all visited me.
On the 1 6th, I took my leave of the Duchess of
Albuquerque, and her Excellency Donna Maria de
la Cueva. The Duchess showed me a large room
full of gilt and silver plate, which they said cost a
hundred thousand pistoles, though to my eye it did
not seem of half the worth. It was made for the
Duke's journey into Germany, being the principal
person entrusted to dispose of her Imperial Majesty's
family and money for a voyage to that Court ; and
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afterwards he and his lady are to return to Sicily,
and there to remain Viceroy. The same day I took
my leave of the German Ambassador's lady. Easter-
day being the 25th of April, 1666, the Infanta
Donna Maria was married to the Emperor by proxy,
viz., the Duke de Medina de las Torres.
The Ceremony
First went a great high coach of the Duke*s,
drawn by four black Flanders' mares ; in it were the
Duchess's two sons, with other persons of quality.
In Madrid none can go with six horses but the King
or Queen, as I said before. Then went the Duke's
coach, a most exceeding rich one, drawn by four grey
Flanders' mares, in the upper end whereof the Duke
himself sat, with the German Ambassador on his
right hand, the Duke of Alva on his left, in the
other end the Conde de Pefiaranda, between the
Duke of Pastrana and his son. After this coach
followed immediately the Duke of Medina's Gentle-
man of the Horse, upon a very fine white one. Then
went a very rich new coach, empty, of the German
Ambassador's, made on purpose for the day, drawn
by four horses. Then followed another of the
Duke's coaches with some of his gentlemen in it ;
then the German Ambassador's second coach, with
some of his gentlemen in it. Then one of the
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Duke*8 coaches, in which was the Baron de Lesley,
Envoy Extraordinary from the Emperor, and one
person with him ; then another of the Duke's coaches
with more of his gentlemen. Then another of the
German Ambassador's coaches with more of his
family in it. The Duke's pages walked by his
coach, and had gold chains across their shoulders.
The Baron de Lesley's went in some of the before-
named coaches.
On Monday the 26th, Don John of Austria came
to Court to give the Empress joy, but the ceremony
performed, returned immediately, the same day, to
a retiring place his Highness had at Ocafia, near
Aranjuez, which famous seat of royal recreation, for
a farewell, the Empress lay at night at, being in her
way to Denia, where she was to embark. Don John,
from Ocafia accompanied her Imperial Majesty two
or three days' journey.
On Tuesday the 27th, my husband, (invited there
by the Master of the Ceremonies, and then to come
in short mourning, with something of jewels,) gave
to the Empress joy in his master's name, also to the
Queen jointly sent ; and then giving her daughter
the hand. Sir Robert Southwell was admitted to
accompany him in like manner, and perform the
same function.
On Wednesday the ^th of April, her Imperial
Majesty went from the palace to the Descal^as
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Reales, and from thence to the Atoche, from whence
she began her journey for Vienna. Her passing
through the town was in this manner.
First passed several persons of quality in their
coaches, intermixed with others. Then the two
Lieutenants of her Catholic Majesty's guards, on
horseback ; then the two Captains of the said guards,
the Marquis de Salina, and the Marquis de Malpica,
on horseback. Then a coach of respect, lined with
cloth of gold, mixed with green. Then a litter of
respect lined with the same stuflF; then four trumpeters
on horseback ; then the Duke of Albuquerque, in a
plain coach ; then twenty-four men upon horses and
mules, with portmanteaus before them; then two
trumpeters more; then the Empress and her Camarera
Mayor (Condessa de Benavente), in a plain large
coach ; then eight men ipnthout cloaks on horseback,
who I presume were pages to her Catholic Majesty ;
then the Empress's nurse, and four or five pretty
children of her's in a coach ; then four young ladies
with caps and white feathers with black specks in
them, in another coach ; then duenas or ancient
ladies ; then more young ladies with caps and black
hats, pinned up with rich jewels ; then another coach
with young ladies ; then followed many other coaches
irregularly.
The Duke de Medina de las Torres, as also the
German Ambassador, and many of the nobility of
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Spain, went out of town, and stayed about a league
ofF for the Empress's coming that way. All the
meaner sort of her Imperial Majesty's train, and her
carriages, as also the Duke of Albuquerque's, went
before.
On Monday the 26th, I wrote to the Camarera
Mayor and the Empress's Aya, giving both their
Majesties joy of this marriage.
May the 5th, we dined at Salvatierra, two leagues
from Madrid, and returned again at night.
On Friday the Hth of May, 1666, came to Madrid
the Earl of Sandwich, Ambassador Extraordinary
from our King to the Queen Regent of this kingdom.
My husband went with all his train two leagues to
welcome and conduct him to this Court. This day
twenty-two years we were married.
The 29 th, my Lord of Sandwich delivered my
husband the King's letters of revocation, and there-
with a private letter of great grace and favour. This
afternoon my Lord Sandwich, with most part of his
train, came to visit me.
June the 9th, stilo navOy being the King's birthday,
my husband made an entertainment for my Lord of
Sandwich, with all his retinue and the rest of the
English at Madrid.
The next [Sun-] day, being Whit-Sunday,* my
husband went with the Earl of Sandwich to a private
* This was the last time my husband received the communion.
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audience, where my husband introduced him to the
King of Spain. Monday the 14th, my husband
went with the Earl of Sandwich to the Duke de
Medina de las Torres.
On the iith, being Tuesday,* my husband was
taken ill with an ague, but turned to a malignant
inward fever, of which he lay until the 26th of the
same month, being Sunday,t until eleven of the
clock at night, and then departed this life, fifteen
days before his intended journey to England.
*0 all powerful good God, look down from
Heaven upon the most distressed wretch upon
earth. See me with my soul divided, my glory and
my guide taken from me, and in him all my comfort
in this life ; see me staggering in my path, which
made me expect a temporal blessing for a reward of
the great integrity, innocence, and uprightness of his
whole life, and his patience in suffering the insolency
of wicked men, whom he had to converse with upon
the public employment, which thou thoughtest fit, in
thy wisdom, to exercise him in. Have pity on me,
O Lord, and speak peace to my disquieted soul, now
sinking under this great weight, which, without thy
support, cannot sustain itself. See me, O Lord, with
five children, a distressed family, the temptation of
the change of my religion, the want of all my friends,
• Queiy, ^th June. t Query, Saturday, Jfth June.
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without counsel, out of my country, without any
means to return with my sad family to our own
country, now in war with most part of Christendom.
But, above all, my sins, O Lord, I do lament with
shame and confusion, believing it is for them that I
receive this great punishment. Thou hast showed
me many judgments and mercies which did not
reclaim me, nor turn me to thy holy conversation,
which the example of our blessed Saviour taught.
Lord, pardon me; O God, forgive whatsoever is
amiss in me ; break not a bruised reed. I humbly
submit to thy justice ; I confess my wretchedness,
and know I have deserved not only this but ever-
lasting punishment ; but, O my God, look upon me
through the merits of my Saviour, and for his sake
save me : do with me and for me what thou pleasest,
for I do wholly rely on thy mercy, beseeching thee
to remember thy promises to the fatherless and
widow, and enable me to fulfil thy will cheerfully in
this world ; humbly beseeching thee that, when this
mortal life is ended, I may be joined with the soul
of my dear husband, and all thy servants departed
this life in thy futh and fear, in everlasting praises of
thy Holy Name. Amen.*
The next day my husband was embalmed. The
following day I began to receive messages from the
Queen and the Court of Spain.
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July the 4th, sHlo novo^ 1666, my husband was
buried by his own Chaplain, with the ceremony of
the Church of England, and a sermon preached by
him. In the evening I sent the body of my dear
husband to Bilbao, intending suddenly to follow
him : he went out of town privately, being accom-
panied only by a part of his own retinue* His body
arrived safe at Bilbao on the 14th of July 1666, and
was laid in the King's house. Mr. Cooper, Gentle-
man of his Horse ; Mr. Jemett, who waited on him
in his bed-chamber; Mr. Rookes, Mr. Weeden,
Mr. Carew, Richard Batha, and Francis.
The 5th of July 1666, sAlo novo^ the Queen-
Mother sent the Master of the Ceremonies of Spain
to invite me to stay with all my children in her
Court, promising me a pension of thirty thousand
ducats a year, and to provide for my children, if I
and they would turn our religion and become Roman