The Queen sent me, for a present, two thousand pistoles which her
Majesty sent me word was to buy my husband a jewel if he had lived.
The week following I gave the Secretary of State a gold watch and
chain, worth thirty pounds. I gave the Master of the Ceremonies, at my
coming away, a clock, which cost me forty pounds. I sold all my
coaches and horses, and lumber of the house, to the Earl of Sandwich,
for one thousand three hundred and eighty pistoles. I likewise sold
there one thousand pounds' worth of plate to several persons, all the
money I could make being little enough for my most sad journey to
England.
The 8th of July 1666, at night, I took my leave of Madrid, and of the
Siete Chimineas, the house so beloved of my husband and me formerly. I
carried with me all my jewels, and the best of my plate, and other
precious rarities, all the rest being gone before to Bilbao, with part
of my family. All the women went in litters, and the men on horseback.
Myself, my son, and four daughters, one gentlewoman, one chambermaid,
Mr. Fanshawe, my husband's Secretary; Mr. Price, the Chaplain; Mr.
Bagshawe, Mr. Creyton, Mr. White, Mr. Hellowe, John Burton, William,
the Cook; besides other Spanish attendants.
My Lord Sandwich came in the afternoon to accompany me out of town,
which offer, though earnestly pressed by my Lord, as well as by other
persons of quality, I refused, desiring to go out of that place as
privately as I could possibly; and I may truly say, never any
Ambassador's family came into Spain more gloriously, or went out so
sad.
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