[160] This aqueduct begun by Terzi in 1593 was finished in 1613 by Pedro Fernandes de Torres, who also designed the fountain in the centre of the cloister. [161] It was here that Wellington was slung across the river in a basket on his way to confer with the Portuguese general during the advance on Salamanca. [162] Terzi was taken prisoner at Alcacer-Quebir in 1578 and ransomed by King Henry, who made him court architect, a position he held till his death in 1598. [163] Some of the most elaborate dated 1584 are by Francisco de Mattos. [164] It was handed over to the cathedral chapter on the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1772. [165] São Bento is now used as a store for drain-pipes. [166] The Matriz at Vianna has a fifteenth-century pointed door, with half figures on the voussoirs arranged as are the four-and-twenty elders on the great door at Santiago, a curious arrangement found also at Orense and at Noya. [167] There was only one other house of this order in Portugal, at Laveiras. [168] Not of course the famous son of Charles V., but a son of Philip IV. [169] In that year from June to October 45,000 men are inscribed as working on the building, and 1266 oxen were bought to haul stones! [170] The area of the Escorial, excluding the many patios and cloisters, is over 300,000 square feet; that of Mafra, also excluding all open spaces, is nearly 290,000. [171] Compare also the front of the Misericordia in Oporto. End of Project Gutenberg's Portuguese Architecture, by Walter Crum Watson