there was set vp of purpose for a more close and conuenient passage a very large Scaffold adioining to the end of a long Gallery and to the Church likewise the timber whereof was all couered with cloth of Gold very rich and the Scaffold being high was a good meanes to giue sight to all the people The manner of their comming to Church was in this sort The Kings Trumpets were placed neere and before the Church in seuerall companies alwaies sounding and one answering other about foure of the clocke in the after noone there appeared descending by the Scaffold afore mentioned to go into the Church of S. Paules which as is likewise said adioining to the scaffold the Knights Lords and Grandes going before and some Dukes of especiall name bearing diuers ceremonies likewise as the Salera or Salt borne by one the Taper of wax by another the Chrisome by another then the Crown borne by the Constable before whom went the King of Armes The Prince was borne by the Duke of Lerma in his armes but tied to him with a rich scarfe or Band he was assisted by the Prince of Sauoy and the Conde of Miranda Then followed the Infanta in a chaire as it should seeme made for that purpose and borne by diuers Gentlemen of the Kings bed and Priuy chamber on their shoulders assisted by the yonger Prince of Sauoy At the Church doore the Cardinal staied for them in his Pontificalibus accompanied with three Bishops and other especiall officers of the Church the singing men going before and so conducting them to the Font which was richly prepared and couered with a Canapy of cloth of gold the Cardinall performed all the ceremonies according to the order of their Church and so with Church musicke noise of Trumpets and many other wind Instruments they finished their ceremonies returning in such maner as they went being accompanied also with most of the great Ladies of the kingdome and those of the Court. He was Christened Phillippe Domingo Victor His Godfather was the elder Prince of Sauoy of whom he tooke his name Victor His Godmother was the Infanta his Sister His Lordship was placed conueniently in the house of the Conde d' Rubadauia in the morning both to see the procession as also the going of the Prince to Christening But so soone as they were passed by he with some other were priuately conueied through a gallery on the backeside of a Monastery into the Church into a place appointed of purpose for him and the Lords that were of his company On Munday in the after noone the Ambassadour Leadger was by his Lordship presented to the King and by him gratiously receaued and allowed That day in the after noone came diuers Ambassadours to visit his Lordship as first Don Francisco de Meschite Ambassadour for the state of Venice as also the French Ambassadour Monsieur Baron de Barault Cheualier who after some short stay departed At the time of the French Ambassadours being there came likewise the Ambassadour resiaunt for the Emperour His Lordship euer shewing much affability and curtesie and accompanying them on their way to their coches with kind behauiour of his being greatly obserued caused an extraordinary respect and an exceeding loue of all men towards him That night also came to visit his Lordship the Cardinall of Toledo being a very stately Prelate well discended very rich in his cariage very curteous and in his expence liberall as by the apparelling of his pages and seruants and by his rich Sumpter cloths hangings and such like might well appeare Tuesday the one and twentieth of May his Lordship was conducted by Don Blasco vnto the church called S. Maries to see the ceremony and state of the Queenes churching whither the King and Queene came together the King riding on horsebacke the Queene in a very rich chariot of cloth of gold drawen by foure horses all trapped and harnessed with cloth of golde in which chariot likewise sat the Infanta Next followed in another chariot the yoong Prince in the armes of an ancient Ladie After followed two other caroches of blacke veluet wherein sat diuers Duchesses Countesses and other great personages widowes Then followed foure other caroches all of one fashion wherein sat seueral Ladies the Queenes Maids This was the first day of the Queens going abroad and as we accounted of it her Churching day This day his Lordship was inuited to dinner to the Constables where he was accompanied by the Duke of Alberquerque the Duke of Cesa and others The maner of feasting being not vsuall in Spaine and our company being many could not all receiue that contentment which the Constable desired to giue in generall For the countrey considered it is much to be maruelled how they could do what they did but it plainly appeared nothing was left vndone for want of cost and that all preparation was made that the countrey could any way affoord for their enterteinment Wednesday his Lordship was visited by the Conde de Lemos accompanied with diuers Noblemen and men of good quality That day likewise and Thursday his Lordship visited aswell the Ambassadors afore mentioned as also diuers other Lords and Ladies in the towne Friday the foure and twentieth day of May Thomas Knoell Esquire his Highnesse seruant and Messenger for the deliuerie of certaine Presents to the King of Spaine expecting and attending the Kings pleasure therein was sent for by Don Blasco to come and bring the sayd Presents into a priuate Garden belonging to the Duke of Lerma where the King and Queene came in person to receiue the same The Presents were six Horses three for the King and three for the Queene with saddles and clothes very richly imbroidered and costly two Crosbowes with sheifs of Arrowes foure Fowling-pieces with their furnitures all very richly garnished and inlayed with fine plate of golde and one couple of Lime hounds of an extraordinary goodnesse Which Presents were acceptably receiued the King and Queene very much obseruing and admiring the richnesse and fashion thereof On Saturday the fiue and twentieth day of May there came to visit his Lordship the Bishop Salustius Taernsius Bishop of Montepolitan in Hetruria and Ambassador for the Duke of Florence After dinner came likewise to visit his Lordship D. Iuan de Bourch Conde de Figaroa President of Portugall with his foure sonnes That day also came to visit him together with the Constable the Conde de Oliuares accompanied with diuers Marquesses and Earles This Conde was one of them that was in England in the time of Queen Mary The same day in the afternoon his Lordship visited the Queen and deliuered her a faire rich Iewell as a token from the Queen of England Sunday and Munday his Lordship went abroad to visit diuers Nobles that had formerly been with him as also spending some part of the same time in concluding with the Councell of Spaine of matters concerning his Ambassage and of all things necessary for the effecting and
with crosses on their breasts in shew like knights of Matta bringing in with them a chariot wherein the chiefe sate Peace Plenty and other vertues being likewise planted in the same with their seuerall names written on their backes After whom likewise followed foure other knightes armed with trumpets sounding When they had all appeared they fell to Barriers according to the direction of certaine Gentlemen appointed to marshall the same Some of our English Lords and Knights being intreated by the Spaniards to assist them therein also they encountered one another single first by two after increasing their number according to the pleasure of the Iudges and Marshals when they had broken their staues or at least done their best to breake them retiring fell to it againe with their swords according to the maner of Barriers fiue blows a peece In a Scaffold directly opposite against the place wherein the Lords stood sate the Iudges of these sports amongst whom the Lord Howard of Effingham was intreated by the Magistrates of the towne to be one which Iudges vpon euery encounter gaue reward to the best deseruer as Scarfes Gloues Choppimors Ribbens and such like which were by the Knights thankefully receaued and bestowed as fauoures vpon their mistresses at last the Knights encountered pell mell one another and as it seemed in a very furious maner But the Barre being made in fashion like a trough and many fire works being cunningly contriued in the same and duely tooke fire and so with flame and smoake they were parted These sports ended there was a banquet caried vp to his Lordship other the Lords and Ladies which were in another roome next adioining being indeed both plentifull and costly and serued in by the chiefe Gentleman of the Country and Towne The banquet ended and night comming on there were brought into the same place diuers fire works one in the fashion of a Chariot another like the wheele of Fortune another like a Castle and such like garded and attended with diuers wild men with clubbes and wheeles with seuerall fire works men riding with speares in their hands all conteining squibbes and fire-workes with which they ranne at one another as in maner of Tilt. The diuersities of the fire workes were many and for the strangenesse and maner of performance thereof generally commended and so well liked as two houres spent in that pastime seemed but a moment Friday the third day of May his Lordship hauing his company furnished with conuenient Mules for riding as also for cariage of their trunks and necessaries about eleuen of the cloke accompanied with the Gouernour and other the Magistrates of the towne set forward on his iourney Don Blasco de Aragon and Don Iaspar de Bullion the chiefe Herbenger for the King accompanying his Lordship for the purposes aforesaied in the passage from the towne the waits and shagbots were placed playing all the while at our departing from the towne and our leaue taking of the Gouernour they gaue a small volley of shot out of the towne His Lordship being halfe a mile out of the towne and yet within sight of the ships as they lay at Road the said shippes tooke their leaue also of vs with many peece of ordinance The said Gouernour as before is mentioned is named Don Lewis de Carilla de Toledo c. and is of the countrie of Castilla but appointed heere by the King as Gouernour of the Groyn and all the country of Gallicia a man of very mild and affable behauiour very curteous and most respectiue of the English in generall as by the great care and good vsage of vs whilest we lodged in the Groyn appeared That night being as is aforesaied the third day of May according to the computation of England we rode to Bytaunce being distant three leagues from the Groyn where his Lordship and his company were well entertained and lodged Saterday the fourth day of May we rode from Bytaunce to a certaine town called Villa Alua 6. leagues where our entertainment was such as the towne could affoord by reason of the meanes thereof Sunday the fifth day of May we rode forward to a very faire towne called Lugo being distant from Villa Alua seuen leagues The Alcaylde and other officers of the town meeting his Lordship about halfe a mile without the gates and accompanying vs into the towne the streets being decked with bowes and the wals of their houses garnished with their best hangings and furniture In the way comming thither his Lordship receaued letters of intelligence and congratulations from the Conde at the Groyne which he accepted very kindly The messenger being dispatched from Lugo and rewarded with a chaine of Gold of good value on Munday we rode to a certaine towne called Terra Castella distant from Lugo eight leagues Tuesday the seuenth day of May we trauelled all the morning vp to a high mountaine by the space of six leagues and dined at a litle village called çebrera where we receiued such intertainmēt vnexpected as was altogether in an arbor of green bowes made of purpose of such a conuenient length that that receiued his Lordship and all the better sort of his traine And after dinner we rode to a certaine towne called Villa Franca being distant six leagues where his Lordship was receaued with the townesmen the streets by all the way where we passed being garnished with bowes and strewed with hearbs and flowers musicke being likewise placed neere the house where his Lordship should lodge Wednesday for that the company were somewhat weary his Lordship disposed himselfe to rest chiefly for that the Ambassadour Leadger complained of sickenesse as also to relieue the Mules forbearing to trauell in so foule weather as it fell out to be the same day Thursday the ninth day of May we rode by a town called Congusta to Beubibre to bed where his Lordship was lodged in a castle of the Conde de Alualista but very old and meane The towne being so poore and men also as if the officers of his Highnesse had not then as indeed they did taken more than ordinary paines and care it had not been possible to haue lodged halfe the Company Friday the tenth day of May we came to Astorga being a city walled and standing in a pleasant and champion country and conteining in it many Churches amongst which one is a Cathedrall two Frieries and two Noneries A mile without the towne we were met with the Alcayldy and Officers of the towne ouer the gates hung diuers guidons and banners of silke one of them being a large white banner of Damaske in fashion of a Guydon and placed in the middest of the rest Musicke likewise playing all the way as we passed the houses garnished with their best hangings and the streets strewed with hearbs and flowers Saturday the eleuenth day of May his Lordship hauing had vnderstanding of the fairenesse of the castle there belonging to the Marquess of Astorga and being desired by Don Blasco
Seruants as diuers whose names are not heerein remembred The ships appointed to attend his Lordship and his company for transportation of themselues the followers and necessaries were these The Beare being shippes royall The Dew-repulse being shippes royall The Wast-spight being shippes royall The Mary-Anne The Amity The Resistance The great Hoy called the George According to appointmēt the said Lords Knights and Gentlemen prepared themselues to giue their attendance whensoeuer his Lordship should take his iourney and therefore vnderstanding that he intended to take leaue of the king on Thurseday the one and twentieth day of March according to the computation of England the greatest number of them being very richly apparelled themselues and extraordinarily appointed for their seruants gaue their attendance at Nottingham house the said one and twentie day of March his Lordship hauing appointed many barges and boates for conueying himselfe the said lords and knights and their company to the Court the Kings Highnesse then being at Greenwich the said Earle hauing ordained his owne company to be in number as followeth Six Trumpeters clad in Orange colour Damaske with cloakes of cloth of the same colour and Banners of Damaske with his Honours armes thereupon Six Footemen in Orange Tawny veluet alike suted Six Pages clad likewise in veluet of the same colour with their cloakes suteable Thirty gentlemen with cloakes of blacke veluet Fourescore yeomen well apparelled with liuery cloakes of Orange Tawny cloth garded with siluer blew silk lace The said noble Earle being thus prepared went with his said company from Nottingham house the said Thursday about noone so shooting the bridge arriued at Greenwich immediatly after dinner and there presenting himselfe and his company vnto his Maiestie was most acceptably and graciously enterteined After some time spent in receiuing his Highnesse commandement aswell concerning himselfe in his owne particular as also touching the conducting and presenting of Sir Charles Cornwallys knight who was appointed for to be his Maiesties liedger Ambassadour with the king of Spaine The said Ambassadours Lords Knights and Gentlemen humbly taking their leaues of his Highnesse were for that night dismissed euery one taking himselfe to his lodging there remaining and expecting his Lordships further pleasure to be knowen when they should prepare to set forward on this iourney His Lordship hauing now dispatched his priuate counsels and intendments with his Maiesty and the Lords of the Councel gaue warning to his said company and followers to be ready against Tuesday morning being the six and twentieth day of the said moneth of March Which time he gaue to prepare themselues for that day he intended to set forward On which said day being both mindfull and forward for his intended Iourney he was early vp in the morning and taking the time of the tide and such company as were ready being to the number of 80. persons in diuers barges and boates passed from Nottingham house to Grauesend and there dined staying for much of the company which followed After dinner they rode from Grauesend to Chatham where he lodged that night The same night the Earle of Marre came from the court of purpose to congratulate with his Lordship and do such like priuate offices of friendship The next day being wednesday his Lordship would haue gone to the ships which were then fallen so low as Quynborow there riding at Anchor and staying our comming but the weather fell out somewhat foule and the wind contrary so that he rested at Chatham that night The next day being Thursday the eight and twentieth of March before seuen of the clocke in the morning his Lordship hauing commanded to be ready diuers barges and pinnesses to carry himselfe and his followers aboord the ships tooke his barge and about tenne of the clocke the same day entered the ship called the Beare lying in Quynborow Road as afore is said together with the Dew-repulse and the Wast-spight which three shippes kept company together and lay of purpose to transport his Lordship the Ambassadour Lidger and the other Lords Knights and Gentlemen that were of the company and traine Now what by reason of staying for some of the Lords and Gentlemen as yet not come a boord for the better disposing and ordering all things concerning the voyage as also for placing and appointing to euery man his roome accordingly The weather likewise being not very faire to put to sea we Anchored before Quinborow till Sunday morning being Easter day and the last day of March. At which time the wind comming about to the West and standing faire to put to sea his Lordship commanded to wey and to set saile which was done accordingly Sailing as farre as the tide would giue them leaue which was to a certaine Road between the Sands neere to the Shoe Beacon where they rested that night The next day being very foule and the wind contrary they were faine to ride it out til Tuesday morning being the second of April At what time the weather fell somewhat faire and his Lordship being desirous to take all aduantage that might forward the iourny commanded to wey againe and put to sea but the wind being very slacke he was becalmed and so driuen to a flatte neere the Spitts where for that the tide was much spent and the flood comming on they cast Ancor about one of the clocke in the afternoone there staying in expectation of wind till Wednesday morning when although there was little or no wind stirring yet his Lordship set forward tiding it as far as they could that night The next day being Thursday early in the morning the wind comming somewhat towards the North his Lordship caused to wey Ancor and so with expence of time and much pains the shippes recouered Douer Road where they ancored aswell for the receauing in of many of the company as also for taking in fresh water and victualls So soone as the fleet was discouered and comming neere Douer Road aswell the forts and blockehouses as the castle of Douer saluted them with many shot his Lordship answering them againe both out of his owne ship and out of the rest also with the like That night the Lordes and Gentlemen for whom they made stay at Douer came aboord and that night also his Lordship minded to haue set forward had not the Hoie called the George by spending of her Mast in her passage from Quynborow to Douer caused a longer aboad Now for that the saide Hoie was appointed to carrie prouision and necessaries for the fleete and could not be so soone made ready againe for seruice as was desired and for that the winde standing at North-east was a faire and fitte winde for going forward His Lordship aduised with Sir Richard Lewson the Admirall of the fleet that some course might be presently had to forward the iourney Sir Richard therefore with great care and extraordinarie paines labouring all that night being seconded by Sir Iohn Treuor Surueyor of the Nauie vnladed the saide
Hoie of all such necessarie prouisions as they were like to vse in the voyage and hauing that night and the next morning dispersed her luggage some in one shippe and some in another and being returned to to the shippes about tenne of the clocke a warning peece was giuen and about two howers after they weyed and sailed all that day being Friday the fifth day of Aprill vntill the next day being Saturday and then being becalmed were faine to cast ancor againe That night the winde comming faire they weied ancor and so failed all that night till the next day the winde againe altering they lay at anchor till towards the euening and then set forward sayling vntill tenne of the clocke the next day and then cast ancor About tenne of the clocke in the euening they weyed ancor againe and so sailed with a faire winde that night and the next day On Wednesday as we sailed his Lordship commaunded to hayle a Barke which was discouered to be a Barke of Barnstable in Deuonshire and came from Bayon in Fraunce who declared for newes that there was a yongue Prince borne in Spayne Now it should seeme his Lordship had receaued vnderstanding by letters from the right Honourable the Vicount Cramborne his Highnesse principall Secretarie deliuered to him whilest we laie at road before Douer that his comming was expected and prouision made for him and his companie by the King of Spayne at Saint Anderas His Lordship hauing sent his prouision of Horses Coches Lytters Hangings and other his rich furniture and necessaries together with his Herbengers and other Officers to the Groyne in seuerall Hoies appointed for that purpose the Kings shippe called the Aduantage being their Conuoy His Highnesse presents likewise vnder the charge of Thomas Knoell one of his Maiesties Ecquery and appointed messenger for the deliuerie thereof to the King of Spaine in their said companie And being vncerteine whether the Kings designes were aswell knowen to the said Herbengers and the rest as to himselfe he commaunded captaine Morgan and one Master Pet a Master Shipwright and a very good Mariner to goe on bord the Resistance being a shippe of London and one appointed for cariage of prouision in this iourney to make what way they possibly could for the Groyne to commaund the said shippes prouisions and people to meet him in the mouth of the harbour thence to beare in his company for Saint Anderas But the said shippe was becalmed as was the rest of the fleet likewise and could make no way but kept company with vs till Sunday morning after which time we had no more sight of her till her comming to the Groyne which was the next day after our arriuall there On Munday morning earely the land was discouered by the fleet and about fower of the clocke in the afternoone they arriued into the road of the Groyne being a very safe and pleasant harbour We were no sooner descried from the lande but the Gouernour of the towne Don Lewys de Carilla de Toledo Seigneur Peynte Corde de Carazena and Gouernour of Galicia had commaunded to make ready for interteyning his Lordship which was most royally performed being vpon entrance into the harbour first saluted from a fort on the North side the towne with twentie great peeces of Ordinance Then from the fort lately builte vpon the rocke with sixe and twentie peeces of great Ordinaunce and from the towne and castle with thirtie great peeces of Ordinance at least His Lordship comming to ancor with the rest of the shippes gaue them their whole broad sides Immediatly vpon his Lordships arriuall the Gouernour of the Towne sent the foure principall officers Commanders of the Towne together with his Brother don Iohn de pacheco and Don Lewis de Carilla de Toledo his only sonne to giue his Lordship the welcome wherein they demeand themselues so exceeding kindly and with the most affable and respectiue speeches that might be excusing their slender entertainment by reason of their late vnderstanding of his Lordships comming to the Groyne for that they had intelligence his Lordship meant to haue gone to Saint Anderas After a short time spent in complement with these Commanders the Gouernour himselfe being accompanied with diuers personages of worth came aboard in a barge which seemed to haue been made of purpose for this vse The Rowers and Mariners thereof being clad in blew silke Cassoks and Caps and the barge couered with blew veluet and newly painted reported to his Lordship that the King his master had especially written to him in these words That he should haue respect what person he was that was comen Ambassadour from whom he was come and to whom he was sent and this he should do euery thing for the honour of these three persons without sparing any thing that might be fitte for his Lordships entertainment And therefore the Gouernour intreated his Lordship to go on Land which he refused to do that night but being much importuned he promised to go on shore the next day During the Gouernours abode on the ship there came many on board likewise and they of all conditions Doctors of Law Churchmen Friers and of all other sorts of people who all seemed much to wonder and admire the greatnesse and neatnesse of that Galeon as they termed her exceedingly commending and applauding the same At the departure of the said Gouernour from the shippes his Lordship gaue many pieces of ordinance which were againe receaued and answered from the towne and forts The whole towne indeed being but a hold and fort but very strong That night they sent from the towne vnto his Lordship a present of fish fruit bread and such like commodities as the country yeelded excusing that they were not able to shew their loue in better sort vnto his Lordship for that Munday the day of his arriuall being Saint Markes day with them and the Fishermen as then not going to sea and also hauing feasted as that day for ioy of the birth of the yong Prince they were the more vnfurnished of better present and more fitte for his entertainment On Tuesday the sixtienth day of April his Lordship prepared to go on shore to his lodging which was prepared for him at the gouernours house which house is the whole pleasure of the towne for that it ouerlooketh the whole harbor and is seated in the heart of the towne The gouernour likewise hauing taken great care to receiue his Lordship in the most honourable manner and therefore had vpon intelligence of our comming to the Groyne caused to be builded a bridge of Timber aboue forty yards long and painted the same yellow red and blew and garnished the same with many pencels of silke of like colours very formally and planted the way into the towne with bowes of Baies and Orange trees and strewed the same with rushes and flowers The whole company of the towne and many more of the Country being as was supposed drawen thither for
of his Lordships in suits of Damaske holding their Trumpets in their hands but not sounding Then came diuers Gentlemen of good sort with whom also followed his Lordships Gentlemen and principall Officers in their Liueries of blacke veluet to the number of thirty Then followed the Esquires Knights and Lords euery one according to their degree being accompanied with seuerall Spanish Knights and Lords after whom came his Lordship accompanied with the Nobles afore mentioned which order for that the raine fell so exceedingly could not be continued as was ment but by reason thereof diuers made what hast they could to their lodging and yet were throughly wet before they could get thither His Lordship accompanied as afore and entring into the towne at the Gate called La Puerta del Campo passed through the chiefe parts of the towne and along by the Court gate The King Queen and Ladies as it was sa d standing in seuerall windowes to take view of the company about six of the clocke came to the place appointed for his Lordships lodging That night came diuers Noble men as also the Mayordomo to the Queen to visit his Lordship from her Highnesse which was much wondred at by the Spaniards themselues for that if they speake true they neuer knew the like fauour done to any Ambassadour whatsoeuer The next day being Friday the seuenteenth day of May there came to visit his Lordship the Duke of Lerma Don Francisco Gouees de Sandoual c. a man of especiall regard and account with the King accompanied with diuers Dukes and Condes Thither also that day came the Duke of Medyna de Ryoseco a youth of ten yeares of age Admirall of Castilla by inheritance accompanied with diuers other Lords and men of great account Vpon Saterday the eighteenth day of May in the morning the King sent the Conde d' Guklues and diuers others of his Priuy chamber to visit his Lordship the same day The first audience somewhat before dinner his Lordship had intelligence that the Kings Maiesty intended to giue him audience in the after noone whereof the English Lords Knights and Gentlemen taking notice prepared themselues to giue their attendance although not in so good fashion as they desired would had they had vnderstanding thereof ouer night his Lordship therefore staying his Highnesse pleasure about three of the clocke in the after noone The Constable accompanied with twenty Noblemen or more whereof three or foure of them were of the Grandes of Spaine and diuers other men of dignity and esteeme in the Court bringing with them many coches came to conduct his Lordship and the company to the Court many people were gathered in the streets to see the passage of his Lordship his company The number of the coches was about twenty but notwithstanding many of our Noblemen and Knights rode vpon their rich footeclothes the Kings guard waited euen from the vttermost gate of the Pallace to the Presence chamber dore being all newly suited in colloured veluet yellow red but in seuerall habits that thereby they might be the better distinguished being in number 300. whereof there are 100. Swissers 100. Spanish horsemen and 100. Wallons At the Pallace gate stood diuers Noble men Knights and Gentlemen amongst whom was the Duke of Infantasgo the Marquesse of Vellada and others all appointed to receaue and giue his Lordship entertainment and to conduct and guide the company vp into the Presence where the King sate vnder a rich cloth of Estate and by him stood eight Grandes of Spaine couered It is not lawfull for any to stand couered in the presence of the King except he be a Grande The care these Lords tooke to giue contentment to the English was so great that we might easily perceiue they spared not to put out of the saide roome all manner of people of what condition soeuer of purpose to make way and giue place euen to the meanest of the English which would presse in to see the King not keeping out any of how meane condition soeuer His Lordship hauing deliuered his mind in Oration by the mouth of Master Gyles Porter his Interpreter as also the Kings Maiesties Letters into his Highnesse owne hands the King descending from his chaire gaue intertainment to his Lordship with most kind and affable behauiour appointing him to sitte downe by him and that very neere which especiall fauour was much obserued and reported as a thing neuer vsed to any Ambassadour before that time Some short time spent in conference with his Lordship his Highnesse was pleased to take notice of such Nobles and Gentlemen as accompanied his Lordship in this his long and painfull iourney and thereupon required they should draw neere which they did each after other to do their reuerence and as they say Besar las manos which was only in bowing low to the ground without touching either hand or foot or any other part of his garments this done his Lordship tooke his leaue and the King appointed the Constable and others to conduct his Lordship and company to the Queenes side where in a very faire presence sate her Highnesse with the Infanta by her vnder a rich cloth of Estate accompanied with many Ladies and Maides of Honour diuided on either side the same roome a good distance each from other standing close by the wall almost from one end of the chamber to the other The Gentlemen Knights and Lords going along and before his Lordshippe were receiued by the Mayor domo to the Queene and so conducted to her presence After some conference and complement his Lordship taking leaue of her Maiesty for that it began to be late all the Lords Knights and Gentlemen were called vp to the Queen as formerly they had been to the King euery one after other bowing himselfe in obeysance and kissing the skirt of her Highnesse kirtle departed being conducted by the said Dukes and Lords which both brought them to the Court and accompanied them backe againe to his lodging Sunday the nineteenth day of May the Kings Maiesty went in procession first going into the Church neere the Pallace called Saint Paules after through the towne to a Church called Saint Maries in maner as followeth First went many Friers singing bearing amongst them diuers crosses banners and other ceremonious reliques of the Church the Sacrament being likewise caried by foure church-officers Then followed diuers Noblemen according to their degrees Next before the Kings owne person went the yonger of the Princes of Sauoy Then the king himselfe in person after whom followed the Cardinal being Archbishop of Toledo and with him the Prince of Sauoy the elder brother Then followed together the Prince of Moroco the Emperours Ambassadour the Ambassadour of France the Ambassadour of Venice after whom followed diuers Gentlemen of the Kings chamber and the rest of the traine After dinner there was preparation made for the christening of the Prince and for that the Court stood from the Church
performing the same Tuesday the eight and twentieth day of May his Lordship and all the rest of the company were inuited to dinner to the Duke of Lerma where they were most honourably intertained receauing there all contentment that might be for besides the plenty of his cheare the manner of the entertainment could not be bettered At the Table his Lordship was accompanied with the Duke of Lerma the Duke of Infantasgo the Duke of Alberquerque They were attended vpon at this feast by diuers Nobles Marquesses and Earles with many Knights and Gentlemen of the Kings priuy chamber and few others And besides the seuerall sorts of musicke during the time of dinner his Lordship and the rest hauing receiued what could be possibly giuen at the Table they were caried downe into a faire court paued with square stone in the middest whereof was a fountaine of cleare water The whole Court couered with canuas to defend and keepe off the heat of the sunne which at that time shone extreamly In this Court was of purpose a stage erected with all things fitting for a play which his Lordship and the rest were inuited to behold The King and Queen being in priuate likewise Spectators of that Interlude To write of euery particular of the Dukes entertainment were too much for he tooke exceeding care to performe al things with the greatest state as well appeared in this that for that the kitchin was crosse a square Court there were set vp high posts of timber with canuas strained to couer and defend the same in the passage of the meat from the dresser The ground being likewise couered with hangings of leather that no dust should arise whilest the seruice passed by At this feast seuerall Healths were druncke to the Kings of Great Brittaine and Spaine and to the happy continuance of the peace begun by the Duke of Lerma seconded by his Lordship and performed by all the company at the table Many Ladies of great account came priuately to see and obserue his Lordship and the company as they sate at meat well allowing and applauding the plenty and bounty vsed at this feast being indeed such a one as the like was not seene in Spaine many yeares before Wednesday his Lordship concluded with the Constable and Alexander Rouida Senatour of Millaine as concerning all matters touching the taking of the Kings oath Thursday the thirtieth day of May being Corpus Christi day the King went in Procession and for that he would be seene by the English the course was appointed by the gate where his Lordship lodged The manner was as followeth First came eight great Giants three Men three Women two Mores with a Taber and Pipe playing and they dauncing Then followed certaine Pilgrimes clad in blew After whō came many Crosses being in number 25. or 26. borne attended by the officers of the seuerall Churches to which they belonged Amongst whom were also mingled diuers pictures of Saints as Saint Iohn S. George killing the Dragon Saint Michaell Saint Francis Saint Andrew Saint Dominicke Saint Martin the picture of Christ in seuerall formes Mary Magdalen our Lady in diuers fashions also Many holy and pretious reliques Friers Mories dancers in maner of Gypsies beasts with fire-works Wild-men and such like toies as it should seeme to draw the people more readily with admiration After these followed diuers other Church reliques Friers Augustines Other Friers of the order of Saint Francis with their reliques Many Churchmen with lighted tapers in their hands the Kings Pages bearing torches Then the Sacraments borne by foure Churchmen in rich Copes Then the Lords and Grandes of Spaine Then followed the King bearing a lighted taper of Virgin wax after whom followed the Cardinall the Emperours Ambassadour the French Ambassadour and the Venetian Ambassadour the Prince of Sauoy the Prince of Moroco and others all bearing their tapers lighted in their hands The same day his Lordship staied till foure of the clocke after noone vntill his Highnesse pleasure were knowen that he was pleased as that day to take the oath formerly agreed on between them About which time there came to his Lordship Don Blasco de Aragon who brought word that the King expected his Lordships comming to the Court as that day and therefore for the more conuenient passage of the Nobles and Gentlemen that were to attend him thither order was taken that all should be supplied with Gennets that wanted and would send to the Kings stable for the same Euery man being furnished his Lordship set forward to the Court the Constable Don Pedro de Suniga being sent to accompany his Lordship thither as also diuers other Knights and Lords whose names for the sodainnesse of their comming and the number of them being so many could not be had His Lordships owne Gentlemen were in seuerall coches afore and staied at the Court gate expecting his Lordships comming thither where likewise great preparation was made diuers Noble men and others staying there to receaue his Lordship and his company Amongst whom were the Duke of Lerma and some other Grandes and those of the greatest Lords in Spaine His Lordship being thus receaued was conueied vp through a long Gallery into a Presence and so into another inner roome the Gentlemen Knights and Lords euer going before in very good order In which roome his Maiesty staied for the comming of his Lordship receauing him with affable and kind congratulation and tooke him along with him by his side The Kings Sergeaunts at Mace going first after following all the Graundes and Lords of Spaine one among another then the foure Kings of Armes in their coats of Armes then the Duke of Lerma bearing the Sword naked wherein one thing is especially to be noted that the Duke bare not the Sword vpright as is the custome of England but bare it lying vpon his right shoulder so the King and his Lords went together into a very faire banquetting house very lately built the Ambassadour Leadger the Lords and diuers others following The King sitting in his Estate his Lordship and the Ambassadour Leadger were placed vpon his left hand the Grandes and other the Noblemen of Spaine being seated on the other hand two degrees lower Before the King was brought a little Table whereon lay the Bible and a Crucifix vpon it The Archbishop of Toledo read the oath with a reasonable loud voice at one part of the oath his Lordship held the Kings hands between his to which oath the King sware kneeling and laying his hand vpon the Booke and afterwards subscribed to the Articles and Agreements drawen and concluded by both Kings Friday the one thirtieth day of May his Lordship dined early for that there was that day appointed a sport which they call Inego de Toro and also Inego de Canas and for that his Lordship and all his company from the meanest to the highest should haue the pleasure of the sights there were some appointed to see euery