[289] Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, tom. x. pp. 239, 240.--Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, p. 641.--Zuñiga, Anales de Sevilla, pp. 536-538. The chroniclers paint in glowing colours the splendours of the royal reception at Seville, which, enriched by the Indian trade, took its place among the great commercial capitals of Christendom in the sixteenth century. It was a common saying, "Quien no ha visto á Sevilla No ha visto á maravilla." [290] Herrera, Historia General, tom. i. p. 798 et seq.--Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, lib. vi. cap. 17.--Sagredo, Monarcas Othomanos, p. 277. [291] Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, p. 667.--Sagredo, Monarcas Othomanos, p. 277. [292] A copy of the treaty in Latin, dated May 25, 1571, exists in the library of the Academy of History, at Madrid. Señor Rosell has transferred it to the appendix of his work, Historia del Combate Naval de Lepanto (Madrid, 1853), pp. 180-189. [293] A copy from the first draft of the treaty, as prepared in 1570, is incorporated in the Documentos Inéditos (tom. iii. pp. 337 et seq.). The original is in the library of the duke of Ossuna. [294] Rosell, Combate Naval de Lepanto, p. 56. [295] Paruta, Guerra di Cipro, p. 120 et seq.--Herrera, Hist. General, tom. ii. pp. 14, 15. [296] Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, lib. ix. cap. 22.--Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, tom. x. pp. 247, 248.--Vanderhammen, Don Juan de Austria, fol. 152. [297] "No poco se maravillaron los curiosos, viéndole, ó por casualidad ó bien de intento, terciar llanamente en la conversacion, contra las etiquetas hasta entonces observadas."--Rosell, Combate Naval de Lepanto, p. 59. [298] "Y concede dozientos años de perdon á los presentes."--Vanderhammen, Don Juan de Austria, fol. 152. [299] "_De las mejores que jamas se han visto_,"--"among the best galleys that were ever seen,"--says Don John in a letter, from Messina, to Don Garcia de Toledo.--Documentos Inéditos, tom. iii. p. 15.