Hellow, Butler; William, a Cook; Francis, a Groom; Frances, a
Laundress, and four Spanish footmen.
To every five mules went a moco, and a sobrestante over all. Her
Majesty sent an alguazil of the court with my husband through Spain,
to provide him lodgings, and to assist him in all other occasions
belonging to his journey. I accompanied my husband a league out of
town in our coach of state; then he entered his litter, and so began
his journey.
Within an hour after I was returned to my house, the Duke and Duchess
de Medina de las Torres sent each of them a gentleman with very kind
messages to me on the part of their Excellencies.
The 17th, came the Master of the Ceremonies to see me, and offered the
services of this Court, with high compliments and much kindness; the
18th, came the Duke of Aveyro to see me, and afterwards the Marquis of
Trucifal; the 19th, came to see me the Baron of L'Isola's lady; the
20th of January, I received a letter from my husband at Toledo; the
26th, the Marquis de Liche came to visit me; the 28th, the Duchess de
Aveyro sent a gentleman to me, to excuse her not coming to see me, by
reason of her being with child, and not having stirred out of her
chamber from the time she had conceived with child; the 29th I
received a letter from my husband, from Frexenal.
The 2nd of February, the Duke de Medina de las Torres sent to me Don
Nicolas Navas, with letters from her Catholic Majesty herself to my
husband, and putting up the packet here before me, inclosed my letters
therein, I giving a cover, and sealing it with my seal, and a passport
to the post that carried it, to come and go: all which was required of
me by his Excellency, who was pleased to continue this for me every
post that he sent during my husband's stay in Portugal.
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