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A18465	The ioyfull returne, of the most illustrious prince, Charles, Prince of great Brittaine, from the court of Spaine Together, with a relation of his magnificent entertainment in Madrid, and on his way to St. Anderas, by the King of Spaine. The royall and princely gifts interchangeably giuen. Translated out of the Spanish copie. His wonderfull dangers on the seas, after his parting from thence: miraculous deliuery, and most happy-safe landing at Portsmouth on the 5. of October ...; Relacion de la partita del Principe de Walia. English	Almansa y Mendoza, Andres, 17th cent.	1623 (1623)	STC 5025; ESTC S107749	16,348	50

prosperous winde fit to carry him into England On Sunday which was the 14 of September his Highnesse inuited the Spanish Commissioners and other Gentlemen to a Feast aboard as a farewell to them before they set forward to Madrid and at their returne from his Shippe where they had such royall entertainment as the time and place could conueniently prepare the whole Fleete in their passage by euery particular Ship bestowed vpon them a Sea-salutation and farewell from the mouthes of their Artillery whose Ecchoes met them vpon their very landing on the shore Leaue we those Lords of Spaine fitting their iourney backe againe to Madrid and let vs returne to our Prince whose progresse after the King of Spaine had taken leaue of him at Campillo ending at S. Andera or S. Andrew the time vntill he set sayle for England was thus entertained On the 10 of September his Highnesse came to the Towne on the 11. his whole Fleete being eight ships of his Maiesties Nauy Royall and two Pinnaces safely arriued in sight of the Towne the 12.13.14.15.16 and 17. went away as before is related in entertainments on shore and aboard in surueying and making ready the Fleete and last in that last farewell giuen to the Spanish Commissioners which was on the 14 of September after whose departure his Highnesse continued aboard foure dayes before he weighed Anchor which was with much ioy eleuation of voyces thundring of Drums and Trumpets and that excellent musicall tumult of Mariners nimbly running vp and downe to set forward so royall a businesse Anchors now are weighed all the linnen brauery of swelling sailes courting the winds to speed them in their iourney Spanish people stand vpon the shore our Prince and English Noble men vpon the deckes taking leaues one of another in dumbe shewes with lookes hands and hats And now suppose that for nine dayes nights together you behold his Highnesse and his Noble attendants flying apace towards England with the wings of prosperous winds But on the 29. day of September being Michaelmas day the Seas grew churlish the windes angry and to auoyd their fury the whole Fleet was forced to put into the Iland of Silley from whence they came into Saint Maries Sound and then on the third of October being accompanied onely with a side-wind they came merrily forward and within two dayes after that is to say on the fifth of October being Sunday at nine of the clocke in the morning his Highnesse with vnspeakable ioy of all within reach of such happy tidings landed at Portsmouth Yet before he could meet this happinesse of Landing a misfortune had a minde to crosse him but Heauen would not suffer it for one of the ships in the Fleet had like to ouer-set him but the malice of this danger ended in his preseruation Being thus then in health and safety set vpon the shore let vs with the same speed follow him to London which he himselfe makes to glad with his presence the eyes of his royall Father But the ioy that he was come being swifter then he could be himselfe put both the Countrey all the way that it came and the City when euen after midnight it was entred into it into such in-vtterable expressions of affectionate gladnesse such vnlimitable violent inundations of ioy that the people to remember the comfort they receiued in their Prince seemed to loose their owne being and to forget that they were themselues men women and children made but one consort and the musicke of that consort sounded nothing but The Prince is come our Charles is come From the Noble man to the Artificer if contention had arose which of them was fullest of good wishes of glad welcomes of lowd-resounding acclamations for his comming it had beene hard to decide the difference So many Bels were heard ringing for a whole day together that a stranger but newly ●●●ring the Citie might haue thought here 〈◊〉 ●eene spoken no other language all language else being drowned So infinite were the Bonefires so costly and so high flaming that had they all beene seene burning in the night-time that weeke might haue boasted it had gotten one day more than any other weeke in the yeere so vniuersall was the light The day was foule and rainy but there were artificiall Sun-beames in euery streete to dry vp the showres What need I busie my selfe againe to draw forth this English Master-peece of ours when euery man carries the picture of it in his bosome It will be a legacie for yong men when they grow old to reade by the fire side the Chronicle of this day to their children Let vs leape therefore from land againe and behold at Sea one remarkable accident with which his Highnesse happily encountred in his passage homewards And that was this About a day before they put in at Silley a great thundring of Ordnance beat round about the aire in so much that in a short time after the fire of the peeces was a farre off easily discerned The Fleet approching neerer and neerer certaine Dunkerkers Hollanders were at it pell mell Hereupon two Ships of his Highnesse Fleet called the seauen Starres and the Rainbow being the formost of the rest gaue them a Shot and haild them vpon which first came vp foure Shippes singled from the rest who being asked what they were they answerd Men of Warre and of Dunkerks Our Men bid them goe to the Lee-ward and speake to the Prince of England they presently did so and went vnder our Princes Sterne Then came vp 5. Ships more they being likewise hailed came being demanded what they were they answered Holland Men of Warre these also were bidden to go to the Lee-ward and speake to the Prince of England These comming then vnder the Princes Sterne as the other had done before his Highnesse commanded them to hoyse out their Boates and the Captaines of either side to come aboard they did so and the cause of their fighting being examined by the Prince it was found that the foure Dunkerkers comming out for them made after them chased them to fight His Highnesse vnderstanding by their own relations the truth of their Quarrell told them that since it was their fortune to fall into his Company hee would perswade them to bee at peace and to giue ouer the Chase and to bid farewell one to another The Hollander seemed vnwilling to this vrging rather the contrary but his Highnesse out of a noble desire to saue the shedding of bloud vsed many gracious mediations to draw them to peace and preuailed so much at that time as that they parted friends vpon equall termes And for preuention of returning to their Quarrell his Highnes set them one from the other some good distance off and so let them goe The names of the Shippes that were in the English Fleete their Burthen and what noble Gentlemen vnder the Prince were Commanders   Burthen Ordn. 1 THE Prince-Royall in which came his Highnes

the Earle of Rutland being Admirall 1200. 55. 2 The Saint Andrew in which was the Lord Morley Vice-admirall 0898. 42. 3 The Swift-sure in which the Lord Windsor was Rere-admirall 0700. 42. 4 The Saint George in which Sir Francis Steward was chiefe Commander     5 The Defiance in which Sir Sacuile Treauer commanded 0700. 40. 6 The Bonauenture Sir William Sentliger Commander 0674. 34. 7 The Rainbow commanded by Sir Henry Palmer 0650. 40. 8 The Antilope commanded by Captaine Lone 0450. 34. 9 The Charles vnder the Command of Captaine Harris 0140. 14. 10 The Seauen Starres commanded by 0140. 14. The numbers of Peeces of Ordinance carried in the whole Fleete amount to 315. Memorable therefore for euer amongst vs bee the fift day of October for our Prince his ioyfull Arriuall here in England after so many tempests at Sea and hazardous Aduentures by Land in his passage through other Kings Dominions As those two other fift daies stand remarkable to the end of the world viz. the fift of August and fift of Nouember the first for the particular preseruation of our King the second for the generall deliuery of our Country Let one red Letter more bee now added to our Calendar an Anniuersary held with thanksgiuing to God and with Belles and Bonefires testifying the ioy of the people in memory of so inestimable a happinesse And now to shut vp this short Discourse with a matter worthy obseruation What an vnexpected comfort was mixed with the misfortunes of those 9. Prisoners 7. Men and 2. Women when the very sound of a Princes Name stayed the hand of the Law from striking them Ioy did so transport the soule of the whole Kingdome that death was loth to do his Office euen vpon those poore condemned Wretches Mercy set a Portcullis before the gates of Iustice so that when her sword was vpon drawing to cut off the liues of 9. miserable Creatures the very breath of our Princes comming put the blow by In stead of that charitable Bell which at the end of euerie Sessions is with a dolefull sound rung out after mid-night to put condemned persons in remembrance of their end which is to be the next morning the poore soules were cheered vp with peales from a thousand Belles long before breake of day so that in stead of being cald downe out of the Iayle to go to their deaths they came as ioyfully from their Dungeon as if they had beene to haue gone to a Wedding Neither hath this abundant grace and mercy of the Prince giuen glad hearts and thankfull tongues to these 9. only their Pardons being now signd but it flyeth like a gentle gale of Wind into all the Prisons of the Land to fanne comfort and freedome to all such as lie imprisoned or condemned for petty Crimes Last of all to saue the Reader a labour of turning ouer Leaues to satisfie himselfe with a briefe Calender how time went away with the Prince after hee came to Port Saint Andera let him bee thus informed That his Highnesse came to that Towne on the 10. of September this yeare 1623. The whole Fleete came and met him there on the 11. day In feasting the Spanish Commissioners surueying his Fleete taking leaue and other correspondencies required in a designe of such State 6. dayes more were spent On the 18. day he put to Sea on the 29. day he put into the Sillies and on the 5. of October landed at Portsmouth so that hee continued at Sea in his comming homewards 18. daies His Iourney by Land from Madrid till he came to Saint Andera On the eighth of September 1623 stilo veter the Prince comming from Madrid was accompanied with the King of Spaine his two brothers c. to Campillo where they tooke leaue that Towne being but eight miles from Madrid From Saint Lorenzo to Guadarama Leagues 2 From Guadarama to Segouia 6 From Segouia to S. Maria de nieua 7 From Sancta Maria de nieua to Olimedo 8 From Olimedo to Valladolid 8 From Valladolid to Pasencia 8 From Pasencia to Carrion 7 From Carrion to Herrera 8 From Herrera to Reynosa 8 From Reynosa to la Puente de Nieuas 8 From Puente de nieuas to Port St Andera 7 Number of Leagues 77. There came along with the Prince in one of the shippes of the Fleet an Ambassador called Don Diego de Mendoza a Gentleman of a noble Family and Kinsman to the Duke of Infantado who comes to congratulate with his Highnesse Father our King and vpon his returne is to goe into Allemaine Flanders and France to giue account to their Maiesties and Highnesses of these happy concordances carrying with him Iewels and other prouision for his person FJNJS Those of his Maiesties Chamber being all of the chiefe Nobility of Spaine A place of the Court so called A Monastery of bare-legd Friers Some rare Iewell so called A place of pleasure in Spaine An Officer of great Place Betweene dinner and supper a collation of some Fruits and Iunkets A hideous night The Spanish Lords feasted in the Princes ship for a last fare-wel

The Ioyfull Returne OF THE MOST ILLVSTRIous Prince CHARLES Prince of great Brittaine from the Court of SPAINE Together With a Relation of his Magnificent Entertainment in MADRID and on his way to St. ANDERAS by the King of Spaine The Royall and Princely Gifts interchangeably giuen Translated out of the Spanish Copie His wonderfull dangers on the Seas after his parting from thence Miraculous deliuery and most happy-safe Landing at PORTSMOVTH on the 5. of October Stil veteri to the vnspeakable Ioy of both Nations Testified no lesse by Triumphall Expressions of the Spanish Ambassadours here now residing as by the lowd Acclamations of our owne People LONDON Printed by Edward All-de for Nathaniell Butter and Henry Seile 1623. The returne of Prince Charles from Spaine AS no transitory glories can bee greater than to see Kingdomes married to Kingdomes in Commerce confederacie and honourable Vnion So next vnto That or rather first aboue That because This second is a Roote from whence those Cedars of Blessings more often arise no Chaines can bee made of purer gold than Those by which two Princes potent and neighbouring Nations are linked together in holy and honourable Bondes of Wedlocke Our most excellent Prince therefore Charles heire apparent to all the Kingdomes of our Royall Soueraigne King James his Father hauing that care due to all Princes to lengthen out his Name by leauing a Royall Propagation behind him did by the consent of the King his Father depart in priuate from England in March last with a small traine of which the then Lord Marquesse now Duke of Buckingham next to his Highnesse was Chiefe His Princely desires seruing him as wings to flye ouer the dangers of the Seas into Spain there to behold that admirable Lady of the world for Birth Beauty and all the richest Ornaments both of Minde and Body the Infanta of Spaine Donna Maria Sister to Philip the fourth King of Spaine c. And not onely to behold her but also that by presenting to her faire eyes a Prince equall to her in all excellencies of perfection there might from their mutuall enter-viewes one of another a heauenly fire of Loue be kindled out of which might shine a memorable glory to both the Nations England could not trust the Sea with a greater masse of Treasure yet ventured she to lock it vp in the bosome of the deepe France in a short time had gotten into her possession a richer Flower than her owne Flower Deluce and but for a short time kept it for neither Seas nor Land had charmes strong enough to hold the vnbounded spirit of our Prince vntill he had arriued at that place to which the brauery of his resolution had vowed to carry him The Heauens had vndertaken to waft him vnto Spaine and there after many weary iourneys did they safely bring him to the King of Spaines Court at his royall City of Madrid What exultations were made at his arriuall what generall acclamations shouted out his Welcomes His Magnificent entertainements princely Feastings with all the curiosities of Kingly Triumphs that either sumptuous expences quicknesse of inuention or the custome and quality of that Countrie could bring forth haue beene already so shrilly sounded out of the Trumpet of Fame that here againe to proclaime them were to set vp a Candle after a Firmament of lights had showne them to the world Now albeit aboue these Temptations there was in the young King and our Prince of themselues sufficient allurements not to haue them parted asunder they being as Darlings one to another for they were a paire of sweet-sounding Instruments set to one Tune and equally strung with the same Number of yeares or not much differing All their thoughts wishes recreations speeches and Actions being Lines meeting in one Center and their often-infolded Armes the circumference to that Center Nay more albeit that high-borne Princesse Donna Maria the Infanta through the naturall Magicke of her Beauty sweetnesse of Voyce variety of Languages with all the rarest and most princely comportments fitting to her birth was able to fasten such a power vpon our Prince that he well might beleeue no countrie in the world but Spaine was worth his abiding in it Adde likewise to this boundlesse Ocean of Delight other cleere-running streames falling into their Current as the continuall and endeerde Embraces of the Infante Cardinall and the Infante Don Carlos brothers to the King bring vp besides to these all the Honors complements congratulations attendances and courtly regards bestowed daily vpon our Prince by Grande's Conde's and Lords of State the least of which by it selfe but all of them knit together being of vertue to make any man consent to be drawne away in so golden a Chariot Yet there was a heape of Kingdomes one day to be his owne which beckond to haue him come and feele their embraces Hee might as farre as from the Court of England to that at Madrid in Spaine heare his Royall Father King Iames often wish to haue his princely Charles againe by his side Not that he feared any malitious danger could fall vpon him There but rather at his being parted from thence when those two inuincible Pirats of the Sea the windes and the waues should fall out and fight one against another might play the Traitor and take him from vs. Hee might heare the Lords of his Fathers most Honourable priuie Councell lamenting for his abscence The Nobility discontentedly sighing the cleargy still praying for him the Gentry complaining and the common people more than madde in their longings to haue him make a quicke returne home Thus were the warning-pieces which continually were shot off to giue him notice how much the kingdome ingenerall languished for him This was his owne country-musicke striking vp of purpose to haue his princely Eare listen to the Tunes These were a mixture of ten thousand voyces like Ecchoes dwelling in euery Hill Peer Promontory and Cape at sea betweene vs and Spaine hollowing to our Charles like so many merry whistling windes to haue him come aboord and make for England But before we can make our eyes so happy as to behold him we must awhile looke into Spaine And there obserue what care the King of Spaine took for the preparation of his Highnesse iourney appointing Attendants and officers befitting the State of such a persons This that followes being Verbatim translated out of a short Spanish Relation of that entertainment Printed at Madrid A Relation of the departure of the most Illustrious Prince of Wales from MADRID the ninth of September this present yeare 1623. Stilo Nono To Don Alonso Neli de Reibadeneyra Lord of Vega de Porras neere to Valladolid THe wonder of Cordoua Seneca Romes Master said that the first point of Ingratitude was to bee forgetfull of a benefit Those which I receiud from Don Francesco de Reibadeneyra a Knight of the Order of Santiago Father to your Worthines I cannot in gratitude passe ouer in silence for acknowledging