I likewise gave joy to the
Empress and the King, who were both then present.
The 6th of January, 1666, twelfth-day, stilo novo, my husband sent Mr.
John Price, one of his secretaries, to Lisbon, to advertise that King,
by the Conde de Castel Melhor, of his intended journey the week
following. On the 14th of this present January, the Duke of Medina de
las Torres wrote a letter to my husband, by the command of her
Catholic Majesty, which said, that for the great kindness and pains he
had and did take for the accommodating a peace between England and
Spain, and procuring a truce for thirty years between the crowns of
Spain and Portugal, that, on the day of the ratification thereof, her
Majesty did give him [Footnote: These gratifications were never paid,
because my Lord Sandwich was sent to receive what advantage he could
make. But the body of the peace being concluded before by my husband,
he received very small advantage thereby; but had my husband lived, he
would, through their justice and kindness to him, for his great wisdom
and indefatigable pains in procuring a triple peace between the three
crowns of England, Spain, and Portugal, have received a sum.] an
hundred thousand pieces-of-eight, and likewise for a further
expression of her Majesty's kindness, to me fifty thousand pieces-of-
eight.
The 16th of January, 1666, being twelfth-day, English account, my
husband began his journey from Madrid to Portugal.
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