{242b} _The Mystery of Udolpho_, the once celebrated but now forgotten romance of Mrs. Radcliffe (1764–1823). {243a} “Sir George of my soul,” _i.e._ “My dear Sir George.” {243b} Puente. See _The Zincali_, part i. chap. ix. {243c} See _ante_, note on p. 235. {246} The House of the Inquisition, or Holy Office. {247} “What do I know?” {249a} “So pretty, so smart.” {249b} Query, the Epistle to the Romans.—[Note by Borrow.] {250} Bad fellows, the French _mauvais sujets_. {254a} _Real_, _i.e._ royal, the first coin of Christian Spain, as opposed to the Moorish _maravedi_. The first _real_ of which we have any certain knowledge was struck by Henry II. on May 15, 1369. The value of the _real_ is now about 2½_d._ English money, but as a unit of value and computation it has been officially supplanted since 1870 by the _peseta_ or _franc_ of 9¾_d._ See Burke’s _History of Spain_, vol. ii. pp. 281–286. {254b} Carlist leaders. {257} There are at least three districts in Spain known as the Sagra: one in Alicante, one in Orense, and another near Toledo which includes 27 miles by 24 miles of country to the north of the city. Amongst the villages included in the district are Yuncler, Yunclillos, and Yuncos, whose names would seem to tell of some foreign origin. The origin of the word Sagra is most uncertain. It was commonly said to be _Sacra_ _Cereris_, on account of the abundant harvests of the district, and has also been derived from the Arab _Ṣaḥ_ = a field. {258} This was Don Vicente Lopez y Portaña, who was born at Valencia in 1772, and died at Madrid in 1850. His pictures were as a rule allegorical in subject, and his son, Don Bernardo Lopez, was also alive at this time, and died only in 1874. {259a} Don Andrés Borrego, author of _La Historia de las Córtes de España durante el siglo_ XIX. (1885), and other political works. {259b} See vol. ii. p. 242. {261} _V._ p. 178. {262} Not Cabrera himself, but his subordinate Zariategui, an old friend and comrade of Zumalacarregui. This was on August 11, 1837. See Duncan, _The English in Spain_, p. 152. {263} Lord Carnarvon, of course, would not have endorsed these opinions. See Introduction, and Duncan _ub. sup. passim_. {265a} Pera can hardly be said to be near Constantinople. It is the _Franc_ quarter of the city, separated no doubt from Stambul by the Golden Horn, and undoubtedly very beautiful. Buchini is hardly a Greek name, and Antonio was no doubt like so many of his kind, of Italian origin. My own faithful Spiro Varipati was a Constantinopolitan Greek of Cerigo. {265b} More usually spelt Syra. {266a} This was possibly the period when Admiral Duckworth attempted to force the passage of the Dardanelles.—[Note by Borrow.]