The scaffold was covered with carpets. On each side of the
Duke stood the Heralds, and on his left hand stood the Mayor, and by
the Heralds two Notaries. The King was proclaimed in five places; at
the Court above named, at the Descalcas Reale, at the Town House, at
the Gate of Guadajara, and at the Palace.
November the 9th, I went to give the Queen the parabien of the King's
birth-day, who, the 6th of this month, completed four years of age.
Her Majesty received me with great grace and favour, causing the King
to come in and receive of me the parabien of his anos likewise.
The 14th of this month I went to wait on the Camerara Mayor and the
Marquis de los Velez, the King's Aya, [Footnote: Governor or tutor.]
from both of whom I received great kindnesses.
December the 17th, 1665, my husband, upon the part of our King his
master, and the Duke de Medina de las Torres, on the part of his
Catholic Majesty, did conclude and signed together the peace between
England and Spain, and the articles for the adjustment between Spain
and Portugal, which articles were cavilled at by the Lord Chancellor
Clarendon and his party, that they might have an opportunity to send
the Earl of Sandwich out of the way from the Parliament, which then
sat, and who, as he and his friends feared, would be severely punished
for his cowardice in the Dutch fight. He neither understood the
customs of the Court, nor the language, nor indeed any thing but a
vicious life; and thus was he shuffled into your father's employment
to reap the benefit of his five years' negotiation of the peace
between England, Spain, and Portugal: and after above thirty years
studying state affairs, and many of them in the Spanish Court: so much
are Ambassadors slaves to the public ministers at home, who often,
through envy or ignorance, ruin them!
December the 23rd, I went to give the Queen the parabien of her anos,
whereof she had completed thirty-one.
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