Francisco de Alfaro, although a Cordovese by birth, resided commonly at Seville. In 1578 he received 446,163 _maravedis_ for making four silver candlesticks for use in celebrating divine service. These candlesticks are still in the cathedral. Sebastián de Cordoba was one of the foremost artists of his age. He died in 1587, leaving, together with other children, a son, Diego, who also won some reputation as a silversmith. Ramírez de Arellano publishes a full relation of the property which Sebastián de Cordoba bequeathed at his decease, as well as of the money which was owing to him. Among the former, or the "movable effects," we read of "Isabel, a Morisco woman, native of the kingdom of Granada; her age thirty-four years, a little less or more." The same inventory includes a curious and complete account of all the tools and apparatus in Sebastián's workshop. But the quaintest notice of them all, though it does not apprise us of his merit as a silversmith, is that concerning Cristóbal de Escalante. Cristóbal suffered, we are told, from "certain sores produced by humours in his left leg; wherefore the said leg undergoes a change and swells." He therefore makes a contract with one Juan Jiménez, "servant in the Royal Stables of His Majesty the King," and duly examined as a herbalist ("licensed," in the actual phrase, "to remedy this kind of ailments"), who is to heal his leg "by means of the divine will of the cure." As soon as Cristóbal shall be thoroughly well, "in so much that his ailing leg shall be the other's equal in the fatness and the form thereof," he is to pay Jiménez five-and-fifty _reales_, "having already given him ten _reales_ on account." Probably, as Señor Ramírez de Arellano facetiously supposes, Cristóbal, after such a course of treatment, would be lame for all his life. At any rate, he died in 1605, though whether from the gentle handling of the stableman and herbalist is not recorded in these entries.