Velasco, Don Pedro Fernandez, Count of Haro, 49, 50.
Velasco, Bishop Antonia de, 52.
Velasquez, 196, 258.
Venice, 191.
Vergara, 134.
Viadero, 184.
Vicente, Avila, Church of, 71.
Vico, Ambrosio de, 248.
Vigarny, Philip (Borgoña), 151, 153, 251, 262.
Vignola, 252.
Villalon, Cathedral of, 143.
Villalpando, 134, 154.
Villanueva, 82.
Villegas, Fernando de, 52.
Vincente, St., 86.
Viscaya, 69.
Visitacion, Burgos, Capilla de, 52.
Visquio, Jeronimo, 7, 8, 10.
Vitruvius, 224.
Vittoria, 208.
Voltaire, 245.
Wamba, 126.
Wear, 123.
Wells, Cathedral of, 99.
Westminster Abbey, 149, 198.
Wharton, Mrs., 103.
Williams, Leonard, 183.
Wolsey, 136, 262.
Xenil, 240.
Ximenez, 136, 154, 156, 221, 261, 265.
Ximon, 207.
Yorobo, Diego de, 218.
Zamora, cathedral of, 133.
Zamora, See of, 7.
Zaragoza, bishopric, 122, 248.
Zeres, gate of, 193.
Zimena Doña, 33.
Zurbaran, 195, 227.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The precedence of Oxford was established by the decree of Constance
of 1414.
[2] Ego comes Raimundus una pariter cum uxore mea Orraca filia Adefonsi
regis, placuit nobis ut propter amorem Dei et restaurationem ecclesie S.
Marie Salamantine sedis et propter animas nostras vel de parentum
nostrorum vobis domino Jeronimo pontefici et magistro nostro quatinus
saceremus vobis sicut et facimus cartulam donationis vel ut ita decam
bonifacti.
[3] Though to the city itself, in which he had been married, he dealt
the death-blow when he moved his Court from Toledo to Valladolid and
established a bishopric at Valladolid (in 1593), which had previously
been subject to Salamanca.
[4] According to Doctor Döllinger, "a faithless and cruel freebooter."
As a daring and successful "condottiere," he was dear to his
liberty-loving contemporaries, who protested against any encroachments
from Rome or curtailment of their civil rights by native rulers.
[5] Married to Alfonso III of Castile.
[6] Cean Bermudez, _Noticias de los Arquitectos y Arquitectura de
España_, vol. i, p. 208.
[7] Avila santos y cantos.
[8] Spain is divided into nine archbishoprics. In Castile are those of
Santiago, Burgos, Valladolid, and Toledo; in Aragon, Zaragoza; on the
Mediterranean, Taragon and Valencia; and in Andalusia, Seville and
Granada.
[9]
Ye men so noble and so bright,
Who from your elevated height
Do rule Toledo's avarice,
And govern fear and cowardice.
Of costly bed, the Lord of Hosts
Hath made ye to the corner posts.
Leave private interests behind,
Show truth and justice to mankind,
To common good yourselves do bind.
[10] Poitou, _Spain and its People_.
[11] The work of Jorge Manuel Theotocopuli, son of the great painter.
[12]
Bell of Toledo,
Church of Leon,
Clock of Benavente,
Columns of Villalon.
[13] He is also the sculptor of the marvelous tomb of Cardinal Janera in
the hospital of St. John the Baptist at Toledo.
[14] The cost of this reja was 250,000 reales.
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