[157] The _Cancionero de Baena_ contains poems addressed to Vasco _Lopez_ de Camões, _un cavallero de Galizia_, and an answering poem by him. [158] For the name of this hitherto anonymous poet see _The Modern Language Review_ (July 1917), pp. 357-8. [159] Gil Gonzalez Davila, _Historia de la Vida y Hechos del Rey Don Henrique Tercero_, &c. (Madrid, 1638), p. 173. The name was a common one. The Spanish translator of Pero Menino’s _Livro de Cetreria_, Gonçalo Rodriguez de Escobar, may have been a relation. There was also a fourteenth-century poet called Ruiz de Toro. [160] Another sister, D. PHILIPPA DE LENCASTRE (1437-97), lived in retirement in the convent of Odivellas near Lisbon, and as a dedicatory poem to her translation of the Gospels wrote the simple, impressive lines beginning _Non vos sirvo, non vos amo, Mas desejo vos amar._ [161] Cf. Ribeiro dos Santos, _Obras_ (MS.), vol. xix, f. 205: _A frente de todos os Poetas deste Seculo apparece como hum Ds_ [_Deus_] _da Poezia o Infante D. Pedro, filho do Snr. Rey D. João I._ In reality he was not gifted with greater poetical talent than his brothers. § 3 _The Chroniclers_ The father of Portuguese history, FERNAM LOPEZ (_c._ 1380-_c._ 1460), had grown up with the generation that succeeded Aljubarrota, and from his earliest years imbibed the national enthusiasm of the time. He had himself seen Nun’ Alvarez as a young man and the heroes who had fought in a hundred fights to free their country from a foreign yoke, and he had listened to many a tale of Lisbon’s sufferings during the great siege.[162] Since 1418, at latest, he was employed in the Lisbon Torre do Tombo (the State Archives), for in that year he was appointed keeper of the documents (_escrituras_) there. Sixteen years later, King Duarte, who as prince encouraged him to collect materials for the work,[163] entrusted him with the task of writing the chronicles of the Kings of Portugal (_poer em caronycas as estorias dos reys_), and at the same time (March 19, 1434[164]) assigned him a salary of 14,000 _réis_. His work at the Torre do Tombo covered a period of over thirty years. He won and kept the confidence of three kings, was secretary to João I (_escrivam dos livros_) and to the Infante Fernando (_escrivam da puridade_), whose will exists in Lopez’ handwriting.[165] His son Martinho accompanied the Infante to Africa as doctor, and died (1443) in prison soon after the prince. The last document signed by Lopez as official is dated 1451; in July 1452 he seems to have resigned his position at least temporarily, and on June 6, 1454, he was definitely superseded by Zurara as being ‘so old and weak that he cannot well fulfil the duties of his post’. That he lived for at least five years more we know from the existence of a document (July 3, 1459) referring to the pretensions of an illegitimate son of Martinho which