The apothecary's shop is large, very richly adorned with
paint, and gilding, and marble; there is an inward room, in which the
medicines are made, as finely furnished and beautified as the shop;
all the vessels are silver, and so are all the instruments for
surgery: nothing is wanted there for that purpose that invention or
money can produce.
We were entertained with a banquet at the Prior's lodging; and
afterwards returned, accompanied by the friars, to our lodgings, where
the Prior made a visit to my husband, and my husband offered to repay
it again, sending to him to know if his Reverendissima Senoria would
give him leave to wait on him, that night, to thank him for his noble
entertainment, although both he and I had done it. The Prior excused
the visit, and so we rested that night.
I would not have you that read this book, wonder that I should not
more largely describe this so unparalleled fabric in the world; but I
do purposely omit the particulars, because they are exactly described
in a book written by the friars, and sold in that place, with all the
cuts of every particular of the place, and you have it among your
father's books. The friars of this convent are of the order of St.
Lawrence.
On the 29th, we returned home to our house at Madrid, where on
Saturday afternoon my little child, Betty, fell ill of the small-pox,
as had done my daughter Ann, in the month of September before; but
both of them, God's name be praised! recovered perfectly well, without
blemish: but as I could not receive, for want of capacity of room, the
ladies of the Court at my lodgings at the Conde de Irvias, so could I
not receive them here by reason of the smallpox in the family, and
they having twice offered to visit me, and I refused it upon that
account.
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