[124] J. Murphy, _History of the Royal Convent of Batalha_. London, 1792. [125] One of the first was probably the chapel dos Reys Magos at São Marcos near Coimbra. [126] A conto = 1.000$000. [127] It is no use telling a tramway conductor to stop near the Torre de São Vicente. He has never heard of it, but if one says 'Fabrica de Gas' the car will stop at the right place. [128] Similar roofs cap the larger angle turrets in the house of the Quinta de Bacalhôa near Setubal, built by Dona Brites, mother of Dom Manoel, about 1490, and rebuilt or altered by the younger Albuquerque after 1528 when he bought the Quinta. [129] Raczynski says 1517, Haupt 1522. [130] According to Raczynski, João de Castilho in 1517 undertook to carry on the work for 140$000 per month, at the rate of $50 per day per man. 140$000=now about £31. [131] Nicolas was the first of the French renaissance artists to come to Portugal. [132] _E.g._ on the Hotel Bourgthéroulde, Rouen. [133] Cf. the top of a turret at St. Wulfram, Abbeville. [134] Haupt. [135] The university was first accommodated in Sta. Cruz, till Dom João gave up the palace where it still is. It was after the return of the university to Coimbra that George Buchanan was for a time professor. He got into difficulties with the Inquisition and had to leave. [136] Nicolas the Frenchman is first mentioned in 1517 as working at Belem. He therefore was probably the first to introduce the renaissance into Portugal, for Sansovino had no lasting influence. [137] 'To give room and licence to Dioguo de Castylho, master of the work of my palace at Coimbra, to ride on a mule and a nag seeing that he has no horse, and notwithstanding my decrees to the contrary.'--Sept. 18, 1526. [138] _Vilhena Barbosa Monumentes de Portugal_, p. 411. [139] Other men from Rouen are also mentioned, Jeronymo and Simão. [140] The stone used at Batalha and at Alcobaça is of similar fineness, but seems better able to stand exposure, as the front of Santa Cruz at Coimbra is much more decayed than are any parts of the buildings at either Batalha or Alcobaça. The stone resembles Caen stone, but is even finer. [141] João de Ruão also made some bookcases for the monastery library. [142] 'Aqui jas o muito honrado Pero Rodrigues Porto Carreiro, ayo que foy do Conde D. Henrique, Cavalleiro da Ordem de San Tiago, e o muyto honrado Gonzalo Gil Barbosa seu genro, Cavalleiro da Ordem de X^to, e assim o muito honrado seu filho Francisco Barbosa: os quaes forão trasladados a esta sepultura no anno de 1532.'--Fr. _Historia de Santarem edificada_. By Ignacio da Piedade e Vasconcellos. Lisboa Occidental, MDCCXXXX. [143] The date 1522 is found on a tablet on Ayres' tomb, so the three must have been worked while the chancel was being built. [144] _Les Arts en Portugal:_ letters to the Berlin Academy of Arts. Paris, 1846. [145] _São Marcos:_ E. Biel. Porto, in _A arte e a natureza em Portugal:_ text by J. de Vasconcellos.