He declared for his successor, Charles Second, who
now reigns; and in case that he should die without issue, the Emperor,
if he marries the Infanta, now called the Empress, to whom he is
affianced; but if not, the Infanta before himself; after the Emperor,
the Duke of Savoy; the Queen of France to inherit next to the Infanta,
in case she be a widow, and all her children successively by any other
husband; but neither she can inherit nor any child of France.
The body of Philip the Fourth lay exposed from the 18th of September
till Saturday night the 19th, in a great room in his palace at Madrid,
where he died; in which room they used to act plays. The room was hung
with fourteen pieces of the King's best hangings, and over them rich
pictures round about, all of one size, placed close together. At the
upper end of the room was raised a throne of three steps, upon which
there was placed a bedstead, boarded at the bottom, and raised at the
head: the throne was covered with a rich Persia carpet; the bottom of
the bedstead was of silver, the valance and head-cloth, for there were
no curtains, were cloth of gold, wrought in flowers with crimson silk.
Over the bedstead was placed a cloth of state, of the same with the
valance and head-cloth of the bedstead; upon which stood a silver-gilt
coffin, raised about a foot or more higher at the head than at the
feet, in which was laid a pillow, and in the coffin lay Philip the
Fourth, with his head on the pillow, upon it a white beaver hat, his
head combed, his beard trimmed, his face and hands painted.
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