{296a} The _Colegio de Ingleses_ was endowed by Sir Francis Englefield, a partisan of Mary Queen of Scots, who came to Spain after her execution. Philip II. granted certain privileges to the students in 1590. The number of students at the present day is about 45. {296b} The _Celegio de Escoceses_ was founded only in 1790. {298} _I.e._ uncontaminated with the black blood of Moorish or Jewish converts; possibly also referring to the use of “New Castilian” for “Gitano.” See _The Zincali_, part i. chap. i. {299} _Temp_. Elizabeth and James I. {300a} Celebrated also for the great victory of Ferdinand of Aragon over Alfonso the African of Portugal (February, 1476), by which the succession of Isabella to the crown of Castile was assured, and the pretension of her niece _Juana la Beltraneja_ for ever put an end to. {300b} _Alcayde_, the Arabic governor of a castle, or fortress, is commonly used in modern Spanish for a jailer, a governor of a prison; the somewhat similar word, _alcalde_, also an Arabic word, meant, and still means, the mayor of a town. {303} It was at Dueñas that Ferdinand and Isabella held their little court immediately after their marriage in October, 1469. {304a} Government requisition. See _ante_, p. 261. {304b} The officers, no doubt, of the Spanish Legion and Contingent. See Introduction. {304c} “Hold hard, you gypsy fellows! you forget that you are soldiers, and no longer swapping horses in a fair.” {305a} See note on p. 120. {305b} That is, gold _onzas_. {309a} The Roman Pallantia; the seat of the first university in Castile, transferred in 1239 to the more celebrated city of Salamanca. {309b} The cathedral was commenced in 1321, and finished about two hundred years later. As it now stands, the exterior is unsatisfactory; the interior is most picturesque, and full of remarkable monuments, including the tomb of the wicked Queen Urraca, who died in 1126. {310a} These “paintings of Murillo” are imaginary. There are some good pictures now in the _Sala capitular_—one by Ribera, one by Zurbaran, and a third by Mateo Cerezo. The paintings in the church itself are unimportant, and are rather German than Spanish in character. {310b} The Sierra de Oca, to the east of Burgos, about sixty miles as the crow flies to the north-east of Palencia. {311} Possibly Cisneros or Calzada. Sahagun, which lies just halfway between Palencia and Leon on the high-road, is rather a small town than a large village, and, though shorn of all its former splendour, would have afforded the travellers better quarters. {312} See Introduction. {313} A familiar Spanish locution—of which the meaning is sufficiently obvious—derived originally, no doubt, from the game of chess, a game of oriental origin, and no doubt introduced into Spain by the Arabs. Roque is the rook or castle; Rey, of course, the king.