His
body arrived safe at Bilbao on the 14th of July 1666, and was laid in
the King's house. Mr. Cooper, Gentleman of his Horse; Mr. Jemett, who
waited on him in his bed-chamber; Mr. Rookes, Mr. Weeden, Mr. Carew,
Richard Batha, and Francis.
The 5th of July 1666, stilo novo, the Queen-Mother sent the Master of
the Ceremonies of Spain to invite me to stay with all my children in
her Court, promising me a pension of thirty thousand ducats a year,
and to provide for my children, if I and they would turn our religion
and become Roman Catholics. I answered, I humbly thanked her Majesty
for her great grace and favour, which I would ever esteem and pay with
my services, as far as I was able, all the days of my life; for the
latter I desired her Majesty to believe that I could not quit the
faith in which I had been born and bred, and in which God had pleased
to try me for many years in the greatest troubles our nation hath ever
seen; and that I do believe and hope that in the profession of my own
religion God would hear my prayers, and reward her Majesty, and all
the princes of that royal family, for this so great favour which her
Majesty was pleased to offer me in my greatest affliction.
The 6th and 7th days of this month I was visited by the German
Ambassador's lady, and several other ladies; also by the Ambassador
and the Duke de Medina de las Torres, de Aveiro, Marquis de Trucifal,
Conde de Monterey, with several others of that Court.
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