A companion/employee of the Earl of Sandwich in a palace in Madrid - December, 1666
from Diary of someone who accompanied the Earl of Sandwich on his extraordinary embassy to Spain in 1666:
Diary entry “Wednesday 19” from 19th December 1666
in ye morning My Lord went to visite ye Kings nurse in ye afternoon to ye pallace to a junto where he was very long a man of ye conde de Penaranda who acts a fiole very well and sings very well and did sing like a nun and a priest and all french and English tunes and did make the best sport yt ever I saw in my life.
cite as
anonymous, Diary of someone who accompanied the Earl of Sandwich on his extraordinary embassy to Spain in 1666. In Chetham's Library, Manchester, number A.2.122 . https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1748951406717 accessed: 16 June, 2025 (Published with the kind permission of Chetham's Library, Manchester)
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Listening to
hide composers| French and English songs | performed by Don Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzmán Conde and Grande de Peñaranda |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | December, 1666 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:50:07 +0100
Approved on Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:59:37 +0100