THE CHATEAU DE MADRID

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wheir stands Lewis the 13, this king. of France his father,
caused to be done by that great statesman in bis tym,
Cardinall Mazarin, whom he left tutor to the young king
during his minority.

I was also at the Palais Cardinal and that Palais wheir the
Lawyers pleads. The choops 1 their have great resemblance wt
those in the hie exchange at London. 1 saw also that vast
stupendious building, the Louwre, which hath layd many' kings
in their graves and yet stands unfinished give 2 all be brought
to il close that is in their intentions I think the Grand Seigniours
seraglio sall bear no proportion to it. All we saw of it was
the extrinsecks, excepting only the king's comœdy' house
which the force of mony unlocked and cost open which
truly was a very pleasant sight, nothing to be sein their but
that which by reason of gilding glittered like gold. But the
thing that most commended it was its rare, curioùs, and most
conceity machines their they had the skies, boats, dragons,
vildernesses, the sune itselfe so «artificially represented that
under night wt candle light nothing could appear liker them.
The day before I left Paris, being according to the French
account the 5 of May, according to the Scots the 25 of Aprill,
Mr. Kinloch wt his wife and daughter Magdalen took Mr.
Mein, Mr. Dick,31\Ir. Moor and me in coach 4 leagues of Paris
to Ruell to sie the waterworks their, which wtout controll be
the best of any about Paris, by the way we passed thorow one
of the pleasantest woods or Parks that ever my eyes did sie,
called the Park of Boloigne. We saw Madrid also, but not
that in Spaine the occasion of the building wheirof was this
Francis, one of the kings of France, became Spaines prisoner,
who demanded .4 ransome 8 milions. The french king
payes him 4, and promises him upon the word of a king
that hav ing once lifted it in France he sould come in person to
Madrid and pay it. Thus vinning home lie caused build a
stately house a litle from Paris, which he named Madrid, and
so wrot to the Spaniard that he had bein at Madrid and payed

1 Shops. :1 Give for gif, if.

3 This may be James Dick, who was born in the same year as Lauder, 1646,
afterwards Sir J. Dick of Priestfield, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and created
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