Apart from the composition of _autos_ and _comedias palaciegas_, Calderón’s life was henceforth uneventful. His position in Spain was firmly established, but foreigners were sometimes recalcitrant. The French traveller Bertaut thought little of one of Calderón’s plays which he saw in 1659, and thought even less of the author whom he visited later in the day:—‘From his talk, I saw that he did not know much, though he is quite white-haired. We argued a little concerning the rules of the drama which they do not know at all, and which they make game of in that country.’ This seems to have been the average French view.[101] Chapelain, writing to Carrel de Sainte-Garde on April 29, 1662, says that he had read an abridgment of a play by Calderón:—‘par où j’ay connu au moins que si les vers sont bons, son dessein est très mauvais, et sa conduite ridicule.’ What else could a champion of the unities think? Though a priest beyond reproach, Calderón was not left in peace by busybodies and heresy-hunters. His _auto_ concerning the conversion of the eccentric Christina of Sweden was forbidden in 1656. Another _auto_, entitled _Las órdenes militares ó Pruebas del segundo Adán_, gave rise to no objection when acted before the King on June 8, 1662; but it was ‘delated’ to the Inquisition, the stage-copies were seized, and permission to perform it was refused. There can have been no heresy in this _auto_, for the prohibition was withdrawn nine years later. On February 18, 1663, Calderón became chaplain to Philip IV. (a post which carried with it no stipend), and in this same year he joined the Congregation of St. Peter, of which he was appointed Superior in 1666. He continued writing _comedias palaciegas_ during the next reign: _Fieras afemina amor_ and _La Estatua de Prometeo_ were produced in honour of the Queen-Mother’s birthday in 1675 and 1679 respectively; and _El segundo Escipión_ was played on November 6, 1677, to commemorate the coming of age of Charles II. On August 24, 1679, an Order in Council was issued granting Calderón a _ración de cámara en especie_ on account of his services, great age, and poverty; this is perplexing, for his will (made twenty-one months later) shows that he was very comfortably off.