After making my last reverence to the Queen, her
Majesty and the Empress rising up, and making me a little courtesy,
sat down again; then I, by my interpreter, Sir Benjamin Wright, said
those compliments that were due from me to her Majesty, to which her
Majesty made me a gracious and kind reply. Then I presented my
children, whom her Majesty received with great grace and favour; then
her Majesty speaking to me to sit, I sat down upon a cushion laid for
me, above all the ladies who sat, but below the Camarera Mayor, no
woman taking place of her Excellency but princesses. The children sat
on the other side, mingled with Court ladies that are maids of honour.
Thus having passed half an hour in discourse, I took my leave of her
Majesty and the Empress, making reverences to all the ladies in
passing. I returned home in the same manner as I came. The next day
the Camarera Mayor [Footnote: First Lady of the Queen's Household.]
sent to see how I did, in compliment from her Majesty.
On the 9th of July my husband sent Don Pedro Rocca, Master of the
Ceremonies, a gold chain, which cost four-score pounds; and, on the
22nd of July, the merchants of Alicant sent us a piece of purple
damask, of one hundred and thirty yards, for a present. On Saturday,
the 16th of August, we came to the house of Siete Chimeneas, which his
Majesty gave us to dwell in, having been the house where the Venetian
Ambassador dwelt, and who went out for our accommodation by the King's
command.
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