To Lord Arlington
Madrid, Wednesday, 18/28 October, 1665.
“This evening I have had audience of the young King; giving him, in our Master’s name, first the pesame, and then the parabien of the time. On Friday, begin the honras of the King, his father; after which, and, as I do believe, on the 5th of the next month, because it is the King’s birth-day, the Queen will give her first audience to Ambassadors; none having yet seen her Majesty but the German, and he in his private capacity.”—Ibid. f. 415.