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A18476	A true relation and iournall, of the manner of the arrivall, and magnificent entertainment, giuen to the high and mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Great Britaine, by the King of Spaine in his court at Madrid	Bristol, John Digby, Earl of, 1580-1654, attributed name.; Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628, attributed name.	1623 (1623)	STC 5031; ESTC S107754	9,956	38

to make brought him againe on his way homeward to the same place whither hee had accompanied him on the Tuesday night before The Condes de Monterey and Gondomar attending his Highnesse to the Earle of Bristolls house Vpon this Friday for a further expression of the great ioy which that King had conceiued at the arriuall of his Highnesse and for his presence in that place his Maiesty commanded that a generall pardon of all offences should instantly be proclaimed and published and that all the Prisoners who were restrained within the whole Kingdome or continent of Spaine should be released reseruing onely the rights and interests of third persons as in the case of Debts and Appeales for murder and the like By vertue of which pardon and Proclamation some hundreds of Prisoners in Madrid were then freed and all the Prisons emptied diuers offenders who had taken Sanctuary in Churches and retired to the Ambassadors houses which are highly priuiledged in that Court hauing notice thereof before did by way of anticipation dispose of themselues into the hands of Iustice and so made a purchase of their liberty by their imprisonment Instant order was also giuen that all the English which were suruiuing in the Gallies and who had beene condemned to that seruitude during life for committing of Piracy and many other mortall crimes should bee released without delay And this Grace which his Maiesty manifested in contemplation of the Prince hath strangely encreased the generall applause wherewith he is receiued and obserued in that Court by all Saturday being the fifteenth was spent at home by his Highnesse in priuate manner in regard of the solemne entry hee was to make the next day which was designed by the King to be performed with the same magnificence and splendour as is vsed at the Coronation of the Kings of Spaine Onely a little before dinner the Conde de Monterey went to the Prince and told his Highnesse that the King had sent two horses thither and desired him to make choise vpon which he would be pleased to ride the day following for that the King would ride vpon the horse which hee should leaue Whereupon his Highnesse passed out into a Garden not farre from the Earle of Bristols house where like himselfe hee tooke paines and pleasure to try them both to the end that if there were a difference hee might take the lesse excellent to himselfe and returne the other to the King On Sunday being the sixteenth when it was already well towards noone there went foure Councellours of State Don Augustine Mexia the Marquesse De Montes Claros Don Fernando Giron and the Conde de Condomar to waite vpon the Prince at the Earle of Bristols house and to attend his Highnesse to a famous Monastery called Saint Ieronimo neere Madrid from whence the Kings of Spaine are wont to goe when they make their solemne entry into that towne and where the King hath a Quarter reserued for the honour and entertainment of his owne royall Person There was his Highnesse feasted priuatly at dinner by his Maiesties appointment but yet as by the Conde de Gondomar who hath the keeping of that Quarter in the said Monastery The afternoone till foure of the clocke was spent by his Highnesse in giuing audience to the Inquisidor Generall and to the seuerall Bodies of Counsels which doe all reside in that Court and did all present themselues to the Prince excepting onely the Councell of State which neuer maketh any visit in Corps but all the rest did performe that duty of obseruance namely the Councell Royall of Castilia the Councell Royall of Aragon the Councell of Portugall the Councell of Italy the Councell of Military Orders the Councell of the Indies the Councell of the Treasury and the Councell of the Exchequer The Corregidor and the Regidores of Madrid which are the persons who haue the gouernment of that Towne did also desire audience of the Prince for they all had beene commanded by the King to present themselues humbly before his Highnesse And here it is to be obserued once for all that all the Subiects of that Kingdome who had occasion to wait vpon the Prince did striue with as much earnestnesse as good manners would permit to haue actually kissed his Highnesse hands But the Prince was resolute in not accepting that humble token of their loue as conceiuing it to be fitter betweene the naturall subiects and their Soueraigne But about foure in the afternoone of that Sunday the King went to see the Prince whom his Highnesse receiued at the gate below They made no very long stay there when once the complements were ended but all things being put in order for his Highnesse entry they disposed themselues to be going And whereas the King with his Nobility came in Coaches thither the whole Court did then mount on horsebacke after the example of his Maiesty and the Prince The King did still put the Prince into a necessity of taking the right hand and so they passed towards the Palace But as soone as they entred vpon the liberties of Madrid they were expected and attended by foure and twenty Regidores of the towne who had there a large Canopie of rich Tissue and it belonged to them by office to carry it ouer the King They were all apparelled in rich cloth of Tissue lined with crimson cloth of gold The King tooke the Prince vnder the Canopie and kept him still on his right hand Before them went the Courts and Ministers of Iustice then the Grandes and all the other principall Nobles of that Court in colours and great brauery and they were attended by their followers in seuerall Liueries which were very rich Next after the King and Prince went the Lord Marquesse of Buckingham and the Conde de Oliuares executing the places of Masters of the Horse to them both the Conde giuing the right hand to the Lord Marquesse and either of them had a Horse of State as the ensigne of the place he held The Canopy which was to be the fee of the Conde de Oliuares as Master of the Horse to the King was presented afterward by the Towne to the Lord Marquesse with all other fees belonging to that office because he serued that day as Master of the Horse to the Prince in whose honor the action was performed Then proceeded the Earle of Bristoll betweene the eldest Councellour of State and one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Chamber and Sir Walter Aston after him accompanied in like manner the rest both of the Counsaile of State and of the Gentlemen of the Kings Chamber following them After whom went that goodly Guard which is called de los Archeros who were brauely clad and arraied In the ways as the triumph passed all the streets were adorned in some places with rich hangings in others with curious pictures and heere and there certaine scaffolds were sprinckled whereupon the bodies of those Councells sat to see which formerly had beene with the Prince

A TRVE Relation AND IOVRNALL OF THE MANNER OF THE ARRIVALL and Magnificent Entertainment giuen to the High and Mighty Prince CHARLES Prince of GREAT BRITAINE by the King of Spaine in his Court at MADRID LONDON Printed by IOHN HAVILAND for WILLIAM BARRET M. DC XXIII ON Friday being the ninth of March Stilo veteri about eight of the clocke in the euening the Prince and the Lord Marquesse of Buckingham being all alone with the Postillion as they had rid post together three daies before arriued at Madrid and conueighed themselues with such secrecie into the house of the Earle of Bristoll his Maiesties Embassador extraordinary to the King of Spaine that for that night they were hardly knowne by any but they could not be long concealed For early vpon the next day being Saturday there grew a whispering amongst many as if the Marquesse were come but not a word of the Prince The same morning the Conde de Gondomar was aduertised priuatly of the arriuall not onely of the Lord Marquesse but of the Prince also and so hee went instantly to the Earle of Bristowes house After hee had done reuerence to his Highnesse and had passed an houre in his presence and in discourse with his Highnesse and those Lords it was desired that hee would giue the King his Mastor notice of the arriual of the Marquesse but that he should say nothing of the Prince at that time at least not in any such sort as that they might take knowledge of his being there The Conde de Gondomar vndertooke it and carried the newes thereof to the Conde de Oliuares who is that Kings great Fauorite and indeed a Person who for his noble conditions and choise parts doth well deserue the large portion which the King his Master affordeth him of his estimation and affection Hee conueighed what he knew to his Maiesty and then withall sent to the Marquesse desiring earnestly that hee would giue him leaue to goe instantly and visit him But the Marquesse excused himselfe did expressely refuse it through his desire of concealing the Prince and so they resolued vpon another meeting place for the afternoone which fell out to bee the Parke The Conde therefore sent a Coach to the Lord Marquesse and his Lordship tooke with him the Conde de Gondomar the Earle of Bristoll and Sir Walter Aston his Maiesties ordinary Ambassador in that Court The Conde de Oliuares was already expecting the Lord Marquesse and at length they met and spent more then an houre together in great expressions of contentment and ioy After this the Conde conducted the Lord Marquesse and all that Company into the Court and so vp to the King by a priuate way At which time the Lord Marquesse deliuered the King our Soueraignes Letters to the King of Spaine and so much passed betweene them as serued to disclose that the Prince was come and at the Earle of Bristowes house wherewith the King was extremely taken and much transported with ioy His Maiesty sent a hearty salutation to the Prince by the Lord Marquesse wherewith his Lordship returned to his Highnesse being extraordinarily satisfied both with that Kings Princely courtesie and his many noble parts otherwise The Conde de Oliuares conducted the Lord Marquesse home pressing euen beyond his Commission for he was not yet to take knowledge of the Princes arriuall to kisse his Highnesse hand hee saw him and spake with him The Prince receiued him nobly and like the Prince he is and was very earnest with him to put on his hat but the Conde would by no meanes doe it although hee bee a Graunde of Spaine and may therefore bee couered before his owne King During this visit the Marquesse desired the Conde that he would oblige the Prince by getting him a speedy sight of the Infanta his Mistresse wherein hee promised to doe his best endeuor though it were in Lent which hee said was a time of extraordinary recollection and reseruation and so they parted for the present being all in great contentment one with another In conformity to the Princes desire his Maiesty being that night acquainted with it by the Conde laid aside the consideration of the time and instantly resolued to giue his Highnesse all satisfaction And so he went abroad the next day at the houre appointed which was about three a clocke in the afternoone and to the Prado being the certaine place agreed vpon betweene them his Maiesty conducting with him his Queene his Sister the Infanta the Infantes Don Carlos the Cardinall Don Fernando his brethren the Conde de Oliuares and the Conde de Gondomar following him with much of the Nobility of that Court both of Ladies and Lords The Prince on the other side went disguised in the Duke of Cea's Coach and was attended in the same Coach by the Lord Marquesse the Earle of Bristoll the Conde de Gondomar and Sir Walter Aston And so both the King and the Prince made diuers turnes and returnes in their seuerall Coaches and in seuerall parts of the Towne and Prado which is a place of recreation where the Nobility is often wont to take the aire and euery one of them saw each other in a cleare light not being able to abstaine from saluting mutually with the hat as they passed by though they had agreed to take no kind of notice of one another and this was all they did for that time The King and all that royall Company returned by night by a world of Torch-light which made a most glorious shew Immediatly after this his Maiesty not being content with those single sights of the Prince sent the Conde de Oliuares to pray him that they might meet and embrace and speake together before they slept The Prince accepted of the occasion but there rose a difference betweene them about the manner For the King did much presse the Prince that he would accept of a visit frō himselfe in the Earle of Bristolls house and really his Highnes had much adoe to refuse it but yet he would by no meanes admit therof On the other side the Prince did offer to goe visit his Maiesty in his Palace but the King considering that that must needs be to the Princes disaduantage because he had no Equipage his Maiesty refused expressely it grew to be agreed betweene them that it should be in the aforesaid Prado and in the euening of the same Sunday when it might be darke Whereupon the Conde de Oliuares said pleasantly that he would by no meanes consent that his Master should meet him and especially by night but vpon euen termes that the Prince was a great man at armes and that euen in the ciuill way hee was strong in Ambassadors and Secretaries whereas the King was in effect alone that therefore he desired that the Prince would lend him the Marquesse and that he might carry him to the Court and so he might come to that meeting with the King and him as a Spaniard