Also on the plan the archbishop showed Your Majesty, the position of the singers at the gospel lectern is marked, because Your Majesty's position is indicated on the epistle side, and Your Majesty organized it better, putting your canopy on the gospel side as it should always be and as it is in the royal chapel, and so it would be better for the singers to be on the other side (that of the epistle).
The king decided the matter in a marginal note in his own hand: |it is commanded that the singers be on the epistle side'.(21)
For the funeral of Marguerite(22) Philip III took up position in the gallery in front of the high altar on the epistle side (A in illus.6).
This can be seen in two almost identical plans: the first for the funeral of Isabella of Bourbon, Philip IV's first wife, in 1644;(24) the second being included in the Etiquetas generales of 1651, in which the |position of the singers' is marked AA in illus.6.(25) The king is here on the gallery on the epistle side of the high altar (A), still at an angle to the musicians.
Worse, a tennis court, aptly called Kampanaryo Tennis Court, has been built right beside the walls of what must have been the
epistle side of this earlier church.