Thus they rode through the greatest streets of Madrid, as the custom
is; and alighting within the palace, my husband was conducted up by
the Marquis, all the King's guards attending, through many rooms, in
which were infinite numbers of people, as there were in the streets to
see him pass to the palace up to a private drawing-room of his
Catholic Majesty's, where my husband was received with great grace and
favour by his Majesty. My husband, being covered, delivered his
message in English, interpreted afterwards by himself in Spanish.
After this my husband gave his Catholic Majesty thanks for his noble
entertainment from our landing to this Court, to which his Catholic
Majesty replied, 'That, as well for the great esteem he had ever had
for his person, as the greatness of his Master whom he served, he
would be always glad to be serviceable to him.'
After my husband's obeisance to the King, and saluting all the
grandees there waiting, he was conducted to the Queen; where having
stayed in company with her Majesty, the Empress,[Footnote: Philip the
Fourth of Spain succeeded his father Philip the Third in 1621, and
married his niece, Maria Anna, daughter of his sister of the
same name by the Emperor Ferdinand. By her he had issue a son, Charles
the Second, who succeeded him in 1665, and died in 1700, and two
daughters, Maria Theresa, who married Louis XIV.
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