The next day her Majesty's Camarera Mayor and the Princess
Alva gave me joy, as did likewise most of the others of the greatest
ladies at court.
'Oh, ever living God, through Jesus Christ, receive the humble thanks
of thy servant for thy great mercy to us in our son, whom I humbly
desire thee, O Jesus, to protect; and to make him an instrument of thy
glory. Give him thy Holy Spirit, O God, to be with him all the days of
his life; direct him through the narrow paths of righteousness, in
faith, patience, charity, temperance, chastity, and a love and liking
of thy blessed will, in all the various accidents of this life: this
with what outward blessings thou, O Heavenly Father, knowest needful
for him, I beg of thee, not remembering his sins nor the sins of us
his parents, nor of our forefathers, but thy tender mercy, which thou
hast promised shall be all over thy works, and for the blessed merits
of our only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to whom with thee and the
blessed Spirit be all honour and glory, as it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever shall be. Amen.'
On Thursday the 17th of September, died Philip the Fourth of Spain
having been sick but four days, of a flux and fever. The day before
his death he made his will, and left the government of the King and
kingdom in the hands of his Queen, Donna Ana of Austria; and to assist
her Majesty, he recommended for her council therein, the President of
Castile, Conde de Castilla, the Cardinal of Toledo, the Inquisitor
General, the Marquis of Aytona, the Vice-Chancellor of Aragon, and the
Conde de Penaranda.
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