hill, that is a rock: I laid my head to the key-hole and heard a noise
like the clashing of arms, but could not distinguish other shrill
noises I heard with that, but tradition says it could never be opened
since the Moors left it, notwithstanding several persons had
endeavoured to wrench it open, but that they perished in the attempt.
The truth of this I can say no more to; but that there is such a gate,
and I have seen it.

After two days we went on our journey; and on the 13th of April 1650,
we came to the Court of Madrid, where we were the next day visited by
the two English ambassadors, and afterwards by all the English
merchants.

Here I was delivered of my first daughter, that was called Elizabeth,
upon the 13th of July. She lived but fifteen days, and lies buried in
the Chapel of the French Hospital. Your father had great difficulty to
carry on his business, without encroaching upon the Extraordinary
Ambassador's negotiation, and the performance of his Majesty's
commands to show his present necessities, which he was sent to Philip
IV. for, in hopes of a present supply of money, which our King then
lacked; but finding no good to be done on that errand, he and I,
accompanied by Dr. Bell, of Jesus College in Cambridge, who had been
his tutor, went a day's journey together towards St. Sebastian, there
to embark for France.

While we stayed in this Court we were kindly treated by all the
English; and it was no small trouble to your father's tutor to quit
his company, but, having undertaken the charge of that family of the
ambassador's as their chaplain, he said, he held himself obliged in
conscience to stay, and so he did. In a few months after he died