Juego de cañas

But he expressed reservations about his English servants, saying, I am not satisfied that they are good enough Catholics to be constantly about my person.

On November 25th, Spanish courtiers staged something called a Juego de Cañas, a joust, in which Keynes replaced lances i'm not sure what it was all about um but in any case this was this was performed before the queen ability and a bunch of courtiers at whitehall it was designed to win the english over because the english loved jousting it did the opposite though it kind of fell flat like a record scratch you know with one courtier noting, the English president were left cold by the spectacle.

It turned out later, there had been a treasonous plot against Philip, allegedly, by a man named Edward Luker, who had arranged with two friends to kill Philip and his Spanish attendants.

You know, this is a little murky.