Chapter VII

The Spanish Treaty—Negotiations between the Duke of Lerma
and Lord Digby—The Infanta described by Lord Digby—Her
Great Beauty, Piety, and Sweetness—The Description of her
by Toby Matthew—She is disposed to receive Charles’s
Addresses—Gondomar—Attentions shown to him in England—Ely
House allotted for his Reception—Jealousy of the
Protestants at the Favour shown him—First Notion of
Charles’s Journey to Spain suggested by Buckingham—His
Arguments in Favour of it—Obstacles to the Prince’s
Marriage with the Infanta—Buckingham’s Debts and
Difficulties—Interview between Gondomar and the Duke of
Lennox—Journey of Charles and Buckingham into Spain—They
stop in Paris—Louis XIII.—Anne of Austria—Henrietta
Maria—They proceed to Madrid—Reception there—Entrance in
State into that City—Countess of Philip IV.—Festivities in
Honour of the Prince—The King’s Letters to him 315

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