Some of the
Malaga merchants of Seville accompanied us on our journey. That night
we lay at Carmona; and on the 4th of April at Fuentes, the Onor of the
Marquis, who is now at Paris, Ambassador from the King of Spain to
that Court. On the 5th we lay at Ezija, where we received noble
entertainment from the noblemen and gentlemen of that town; where we
stayed till Thursday, the 8th of April, and after paying thanks to
those persons that had so well ordered that noble entertainment with
great civility to us, we went that night to Cordova, where, a league
before we came to the town, we were met by the Corregidor with near a
hundred coaches, and a foot company of soldiers stood on each side of
the way, giving volleys of shot, with displayed colours and trumpets,
with many thousands of people, who by fireworks and other expressions
showed much joy. Here we parted with Don Lope, a gentleman sent from
the Conde de Molina to this place to accompany us.
We were lodged at a very brave house, and as bravely furnished: at
night we had a play acted, and during our stay there we saw many
nunneries, and the best churches, as we had likewise done at Seville
and at all the other towns through which we had passed in our journey
from the seaside. We had there the feast of the bulls, called in the
Spanish tongue juego de toros. [Footnote: Properly "corridas de toros"
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