A handsome Moorish crossbow, inlaid with bronze (Plate xliii.), exists in the provincial museum of Granada. The Royal Armoury has no example of the rare form of crossbow fitted with wheeled gear, but all the commoner kinds employed for hunting or for war are represented here, including those with the _armatoste_ or goat's-foot lever, stirruped crossbows, and those which have the _torno_ or windlass (French _cranequin_). Demmin appends the following note to an illustration in his handbook of a crossbow with a goat's-foot lever fixed to the stock:--"A similar weapon in ironwood, sixteenth century, belonged to Ferdinand the First, proved by the inscription on the bow: DOM FERNANDO REI DE ROMANO, followed by four Golden Fleeces. It bears the name of the Spanish armourer Juan Deneinas. This valuable crossbow once belonged to M. Spengel, at Munich, but it is at present in the collection of the Count of Nieuwerkerke." There is also in the Royal Armoury a crossbow of the scarcer kind known in Spanish as _ballestas de palo_, in which the gaffle is not of steel, but put together from slips of springy woods, including yew. The wings are tipped with horn, and traces of heraldic and Renaissance decoration, painted on parchment, yet remain upon the weapon. Other portions are inlaid. Except for the erasure of the painting, this arm is splendidly preserved, and still retains its double cord, nut, and pins, together with the separate lever. Another interesting crossbow in this armoury belonged to Charles the Fifth, who used it for the chase. It has a _verja_ or yard of steel engraved with the letter C four times repeated and surmounted by a crown, and bears the inscription, PRO · IMPERATORE · SEMPER · AVGVSTO · PLVS · VLTRA ·, together with · IV DE LA FVETE ·, for Juan de la Fuente, the name of a celebrated maker of these parts of a crossbow. The shaft (_tablero_), ornamented in bone and iron, is from the hand of another master, Juan Hernandez, whose signature is IO: HRZ. The Count of Valencia de Don Juan supposed that this was the one crossbow which Charles took with him to the rustic solitude of Yuste, and which is mentioned in a document at Simancas as "a crossbow with its gear and gaffles (it is in His Majesty's possession, but he has not paid for it)." [Illustration: XLV SWORD OF BOABDIL EL CHICO (_Museum of Artillery, Madrid_)]