On Thursday the 8th of April, being his Catholic Majesty's birthday, I
went to give the Empress and her Catholic Majesty the parabien
[Footnote: Congratulation. ] thereof, and likewise my thanks to her
Majesty for the many honours she had done me, and particularly for
that of the jewel.
Upon the 5th of April here appeared a new blazing star, rising in the
east about two o'clock in the morning, rising every day a quarter of
an hour later than the former, so that it appeared to our view but
about three weeks, because the daylight obscured.
Thursday the 23rd of April, we dined at a pleasure-house of the
King's, three leagues from Madrid, called the Torre del Prado. Monday,
26th of April, we went to see a garden-house of the Marquis de Liche,
which had been the Marquis of Fuentes'. The house was finely adorned
with curious pictures painted on the wall, with a very fine and large
garden thereunto belonging, in which on many days following we dined.
On Saturday the 3rd of May we heard, by letters from my father, the
sad news of the death of my good brother-in-law, my Lord Fanshawe;
and, at the same time, of his son's being happily married to one of
the daughters and heirs of Sir John Evelyn, of Wiltshire, and widow of
Sir John Wray, of Lincolnshire.
May the 28/18th, we went to see the feast of bulls, in a balcony made
at the end of a street that looked in even with the row of houses.
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