Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. Tuesday, the 1st day of May, the Count of Gondomar (age 93) fearing some mischief from the apprentices of London, there were divers companies of soldiers appointed to guard, and watch in several quarters of the City, which still did more and more argue the potency this Spanish Ambassador had in the English Court.

Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. 23 Mar 1622. On Tuesday, the 23rd day of the same month, did Marcus Antonius de Dominis (age 62), the hypocritical Archbishop of Spolato, depart England with the Emperor's ambassador; his abmition in hope of a cardinal's hat with the new Pepo Gregory the Fifteenth, who had lately succeeded Paul the Fifth, so blinding the eyes of his judgment, as he was lured to Rome by fair promises, and, being there imprisoned, did finally end his life by a violent death on the 9th day of December, Anno Domini 1624, and two days after his body was burnt and the ashes cast into the river Tiber. He had come first into England in the year 1616; and having vented here some of his rotten divinity, not finding his covetous appetite so fiilly satisfied as he expected, nor his popish tenets to pass for current as he imagined they would, he, at this time, returned back to lick up his old vomit, though in the issue it choked him in the swallowing. His departure did not more content men in respect of the discovery of his hypocrisy, than the recalling back of the Count of Gondomar (age 94) by the Spanish king, his master, gave all men hope that his successor in his place of ambas- sador would not be able to work so much mischief as he had done.

Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. 01 May 1622. I returned from my brother Elliot's, out of Surrey, with my father and the rest of his family, to London, on Wednesday the 1st day of May, from whence Gondomar (age 94) departed very secretly towards Spain, on Saturday, the 11th of the same month. In his passage to Portsmouth, he lodged, for the most part, at the houses of papists, who gave him great entertainment, as he well deserved at their hands.

Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. 20 Jul 1623. Notwithstanding the Spaniards never intended Prince Charles should marry the Infanta Maria, their King's sister, yet did they not only abuse his Highness, thereby feeding his expectations with fair promises, but the King his father at home also, by sending articles of the conclusion of it, to which his Majesty took a solemn oath in the chapel at Whitehall, on Sunday, the 20th day of July, in the presence of the Marquis of Mendoza, the extraordinary ambassador of Spain, lately come to London, and Coloma, the ordinary ambassador of the same state, who succeeding in the place of the Count Gondomar (age 95), in May, 1622, had continued in England ever since. This act confirned all men's fears and doubts that the match would now succeed¹; which was further confirmed also, not only by the innumerable false rumours the Papists or Pseudo-Catholics daily spread of the time and manner of the celebration of it, but also from the King's own credulity, who took daily care for the royal entertainment and welcome of his daughter-in-law, for whose conveyance into England he had sent a royal fleet.

Note 1. "The grandees of Spain, Willl load Charles's wain, With the richest rubies that be; And God knows what pearl Will be given the girl By the ladies of highest degree. "And some men do say The Dutchmen must pay A great sum to make matters even; So shall we have gold, More than London will hold, Were the walls built as high as the heaven." Satirical Ballad, Harl. MS.