The Duke de Medina de las Torres, as also the German Ambassador, and
many of the nobility of Spain, went out of town, and stayed about a
league off for the Empress's coming that way. All the meaner sort of
her Imperial Majesty's train, and her carriages, as also the Duke of
Albuquerque's, went before.
On Monday the 26th, I wrote to the Camarera Mayor and the Empress's
Aya, giving both their Majesties joy of this marriage.
May the 5th, we dined at Salvatierra, two leagues from Madrid, and
returned again at night.
On Friday the 18/28th of May, 1666, came to Madrid the Earl of
Sandwich, Ambassador Extraordinary from our King to the Queen Regent
of this kingdom. My husband went with all his train two leagues to
welcome and conduct him to this Court. This day twenty-two years we
were married.
The 29th, my Lord of Sandwich delivered my husband the King's letters
of revocation, and therewith a private letter of great grace and
favour. This afternoon my Lord Sandwich, with most part of his train,
came to visit me.
June the 9th, stilo novo, being the King's birthday, my husband made
an entertainment for my Lord of Sandwich., with all his retinue and
the rest of the English at Madrid.
The next [Sun-] day, being Whit-Sunday, [Footnote: This was the last
time my husband received the communion.] my husband went with the Earl
of Sandwich to a private audience, where my husband introduced him to
the King of Spain.
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