[433] Pracmatica para que ningun natural de estos reynos vaya á estudiar fuera de ellos, Aranjuez, 22 de Noviembre de 1559. [434] Marina, Teoria de las Cortes, tom. ii. p. 219. [435] See the "Pragmaticas del Reyno," first printed at Alcalá de Henares, at the close of Isabella's reign, in 1503. This famous collection was almost wholly made up of the ordinances of Ferdinand and Isabella. After passing through several editions, it was finally absorbed in the "Nueva Recopilacion" of Philip the Second. [436] Relazione di Contarini, MS. [437] "Vos ni yo no avenios de subir donde los Sacerdotes."--Dichos y Hechos de Phelipe II., p. 96. [438] Catrera, Filipe Segundo, p. 894. [439] L. Marineo Siculo, Cosas Memorabiles, fol. 23. [440] Nota di tutti li Titolati di Spagna, MS. [441] Lafuente, Historia de España, tom. xiv. p. 416. [442] Lafuente, Historia de España, tom. xiii. p. 261.--Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, pp. 432, 433. [443] Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, lib. xi. cap. 11; lib. xii. cap. 21.--Relazione Anon. 1588, MS. [444] "Otras vezes presentaba para Obispos Canonigos tan particulares i presbiteros tan apartados no solo de tal esperança, mas pensamiento en si mismos, i en la comun opinion, que la cedula de su presentacion no admitia su rezelo de ser engañados ó burlados. Eligia á quien no pedia, i merecia."--Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, p. 891. [445] Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, lib. xi. cap. 11. [446] Relazione di Contarini, MS.--Ranke, Ottoman and Spanish Empires, p. 61. [447] The document alluded to is a letter, without date or signature, but in the handwriting of the sixteenth century, and purporting to be written by a person entrusted with the task of drafting the necessary legal instruments or the foundation of the convent. He inquires whether in the preamble he shall make mention of his majesty's vow. "_El voto que S. M. hijo_, si S. M. no lo quiere poner ni declarar, bien puede, porque no hay para que; pero si S. M. quisiere que se declare en las escrituras, avisemelo v. m."--Documentos Inéditos, tom. xxviii. p. 567. [448] Examples equally ancient, of both forms of spelling the name, may be found; though _Escorial_, now universal in the Castilian, seems to have been also the more common from the first. The word is derived from _scoriæ_, the dross of iron-mines, found near the spot.--See Ford, Handbook for Spain (3rd edition), p. 751. [449] A letter of the royal founder, published by Siguença, enumerates the objects to which the new building was to be specially devoted.--Historia de la Orden de San Geronimo, tom. iii. p. 534. [450] "The Escorial is placed by some geographers in Old Castile; but the division of the provinces is carried on the crest of the _Sierra_ which rises behind it."--Ford, Handbook for Spain, p. 750. [451] Siguença, Hist. de la Orden de San Geronimo, tom. iii. p. 549.--Memorias de Fray Juan de San Geronimo, Documentos Inéditos, tom. vii. p. 22.