[3] The vehement protest of Ribera is reproduced _in extenso_ in Gil Gonzalez Davila's _Vida y Hechos de Phelipe III_. Original MS. in possession of the author. Also published, Madrid, 1771. Ribera it was who principally promoted the expulsion of the Moriscos a few years later. [4] Gongora's sonnet, for instance, which is thus Englished by Churton-- "Our Queen had borne a Prince. When all were gay, A Lutheran envoy came across the main. With some six hundred followers in his train,-- All knaves of Luther's brood. His proud array Cost us, in one fair fortnight and a day, A million ducats of the gold of Spain, In jewels, feasting crowds, and pageant play. But then he brought us, for our greater gain, The peace King James on Calvin's Bible swore. Well! we baptized our Prince; Heaven bless the child! But why make Luther rich, and leave Spain poor? What witch our dancing courtiers' wits beguiled?-- Cervantes, write these doings: they surpass Your grave Don Quixote, Sancho and his ass." See also Cervantes' ballad of the Churching of Queen Margaret, in his Exemplary Novel of _The Little Gipsy_, written, however, some years after the event. [5] Don Juan Fernandez de Velasco, hereditary Great Constable of Castile, Duke of Frias, who in the previous year, 1604, had gone to England to conclude with James I. the Treaty of Peace. [6] So at least say the eye-witnesses; though it can hardly have been a more violent downpour than that which overtook the present writer on the same spot, and at a similar date, in a recent year, when, with hardly five minutes' notice, the road was converted into a rushing torrent several inches deep, though previously no rain had fallen for months. [7] Cabrera (_Documentos Ineditos_) says that care was taken that no sacred pictures were placed in the rooms, for fear of offence, though they were hung with fine tapestries. Three new beds, he says, were bought for Howard and his sons, etc. As an instance of the great care taken on both sides to avoid offence, Davila mentions that Howard, having learnt that two of his gentlemen had brought English Bibles with them, insisted upon their being returned to the ship; and Gascon de Torquemada asserts that the Englishmen were forbidden to dispute with Spaniards, right or wrong, on pain of death.