I must not pass by the description of the entertainment, which was
vastly great, tables being plentifully covered every meal for above
three hundred persons. The furniture was all rich tapestry,
embroideries of gold and silver upon velvet, cloth of tissue, both
gold and silver, with rich Persia carpets on the floors: none could
exceed them. Very delicate fine linen of all sorts, both for table and
beds, never washed, but new cut out of the piece, and all things
thereunto belonging. The plate was vastly great and beautiful, nor for
ornament were they fewer than the rest of the bravery, there being
very fine cabinets, looking-glasses, tables, and chairs.

On Thursday, at two in the afternoon, the Duchess of Alcala came to
visit me; she had lain in but three weeks of a daughter. The day
before she performed all the ceremonies and civilities, which is the
custom, of the Court to me and mine.

On the 21st I was visited by the Marquesa of Bayona, and all that
noble family. On the 23rd I went to repay the Duchess of Alcala her
Excellency's visit, and to give her thanks for my noble entertainment;
a part thereof being provided under the care of her Excellency.

I likewise went to pay the visit to the Marquesa de Bayona. On Monday
the 24th, [Footnote: The new style is here used.] we began our journey
from Port St. Mary to Madrid, and taking leave of all the company, we
gave one hundred pieces-of-eight to the servants of the family, and
fifty pieces-of-eight to the Duke's coachman and footmen. The Duke
accompanied me in the same manner as he did when he brought me to the
coachside when we landed; and afterwards my husband and the Duke
entering the Duke's coach, he brought us a mile out of town, as did