board the Ruby frigate, commanded by Captain Robinson. We had very
many presents sent us on board by divers gentlemen, among which my
cousin Edgcombe sent us a brace of fat bucks, three milk goats, wine,
ale and beer, with fruit of several sorts, biscuit and sweetmeats.

On Monday the 31st of August 1662, we set sail for Lisbon, and landed
the 14th of September, our style, between the Conde de St. Laurence's
house and Belem, God be praised! all in good health. As soon as we had
anchored, the English Consul, with the merchants, came on board us;
but we went presently to a house of the Duke of Aveiros, where my
husband was placed by his Majesty when he was there before, in which
he had then left his chief Secretary and one other, with some others
of his family. The first that visited incognito there, for he was not
to own any till he had made his entry, was the King of Portugal's
Secretary, Antonio de Sousa: there came about that time also the Earl
of Inchiquin, and Count Schomberg, to visit us. The 28/18th day, my
husband went privately on board the frigate, in which he came with all
his family; to whom the King sent a nobleman to receive him on shore,
with his own and Queen-mother's, and very many coaches of the
nobility. As soon as they met, there passed great salutations of
cannons from the ships to the frigate in which my husband came, and
from our ships to the King's forts, and from all the forts innumerable
shots returned again.

So soon as my husband landed, he entered the King's coach, and the
nobleman that fetched him, whose name I have forgot. Before him went
the English Consul, with all the merchants; on his right hand went
four pages; on the left side the coach, by the horses' heads, eight
footmen all clothed in rich livery; in the coach that followed went my
husband's own gentlemen, after the coach of state empty, and those