receive these keys, and to begin and give the word to the garrison.'
This night my husband, with all the demonstrations of his sense of so
great an honour, returned his Catholic Majesty, by him, his humble
thanks, refusing the keys, and wishing the Governor much prosperity
with them, who so well deserved that honour the King had given him.
Then the Governor pressed my husband again for the word, which my
husband gave, and was this: 'Long live his Catholic Majesty!' Then the
Governor took his leave, and his Lady of me, whom I accompanied to the
stairs' head.

The next day we were visited by the Mayor and all the Burgesses of the
town. On the same day, Saturday the 8th, the Governor's Lady sent me a
very noble present of India plate and other commodities thereof. In
the afternoon the Duchess of Albuquerque sent a gentleman to me, to
know if with conveniency her Excellency might visit me the next day,
as the custom of the Court is.

On Sunday the 9th, her Excellency with her daughter, who was newly
married to her uncle Don Melchor de la Cueva, visited me. I met them
at the stairs' head, and at her Excellency's going, there parted with
her. Her Excellency had on, besides other very rich jewels, as I
guess, about two thousand pearls, the roundest, the whitest, and the
biggest that ever I saw in my life.

On Thursday the 13th, the English Consul with all the merchants
brought us a present of two silver basins and ewers, with a hundred
weight of chocolate, with crimson taffeta clothes, laced with silver
laces, and voiders, which were made in the Indies, as were also the
basins and ewers.