At this town I was visited by my Lord Dongan's [Footnote: Sir William
Dongan, who was created Baron Dongan and Viscount Dongan of Claine, in
the county of Kildare, in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1661. He was
raised to the Earldom of Limerick, by James the Second, in 1685, and
was attainted in 1691. A letter from him to Sir Richard Fanshawe,
dated at Xeres, 1st June 1664, occurs among the Original Letters of
Sir Richard Fanshawe, printed in 1701, page 102; and in his
correspondence with Lord Arlington, in the British Museum, he thus
alluded to him:--MADRID, 3rd June, 1666, stilo loci. "Lord Dongan
intends to set forth from this Court to England upon Friday next."-
Harl. MS. 7010, f. 274. MADRID, 6th of June, 1665, stilo loci. "The
bearer hereof, my Lord Dongan, passing through this Court for England,
offered me an opportunity of congratulating your Excellency, &c."--
Ibid. f. 276.] lady, who lives there, and whose visit I repaid the
next day before I left the town. We received letters by a gentleman,
sent express from the Duke of Medina Celi, and the Duke of Alcala, who
both wrote to my husband, and his Duchess to me, all of them
expressing great civility and kindness. By the bearer of these letters
we returned the acknowledgment of their favours in our letters, to all
their Excellencies, and presented the knight that brought them with a
chain of gold that cost thirty pounds sterling.
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