[Endnote 4: (p. 4). _Deeds of the Cid Ruy Diaz._--[Here our author probably refers to the poem of the Cid, copies of which were spread through Spain from the twelfth century (see the _Coleccion de Poesias castellanas anteriores al siglo_ XV, Madrid, 1779-90). In the time of Azurara there was no _one_ chronicle of the Cid's deeds; see Herder, _Der Cid nach Spanischen Romanzen besungen_ 1857(-59), who translates eighty romances published on this subject; Southey's _Chronicle of the Cid_, London, 1808].--S. See also _The Cid_ (H. B. Clarke) in _Heroes of the Nations Series_; R. P. A. Dozy, _Hist. Pol-Litt. d'Espagne, Moyen-âge_, i, 320-706; _Le Cid ... Nouveaux Documents_, 1860; J. Cornu, _Etudes_, 1881 (_Romania_, x, 75-99); Canton Zalazar, _Los restos del Cid_, 1883.] [Endnote 5: (p. 4). _The Count Nunalvarez Pereira._--The "Holy Constable," one of the Portuguese leaders in the Nationalist rising of 1383-5, which set the House of Aviz on the Portuguese throne. Azurara is credited with the (doubtful) authorship of a work on the miracles of the Holy Constable. See the Introduction to vol. i of this Edition, pp. liii-liv, and Oliveira Martins' _Vida de Nun'Alvares_, Lisbon 1893; also the latter's _Os Filhos de D. João I_, chs. i, ii; Major's _Henry Navigator_, pp. 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 21, 78.] [Endnote 6: (p. 5). _Pillars of Hercules_, or Straits of Gibraltar; called by some Arabic geographers (_e.g._, Mas'udi) the Strait of the Idols of Copper. The conquest of Ceuta in 1415 gave Portugal a great hold over this "narrow passage," and in 1418 Prince Henry aspired to seize Gibraltar, which would have made his country complete master of the same, but his project was discountenanced by his father's government. We may refer to Galvano's story of a Portuguese ship starting from here, shortly after 1447 (?), being driven out to certain islands in the Atlantic; to the Infant's settlement at Sagres being in tolerable proximity; and to Azurara's (and others') reckoning of distances along new-discovered coasts from the same. See Azurara, _Guinea_, ch. v.] [Endnote 7: (p. 5). _The Church of Santiago_, i.e., St. James of Compostella, in Galicia.--[In this passage our author refers to the celebrated diploma of King D. Ramiro about the battle of Clavijo, though he does not cite that document, and also to the _Chronicle of Sampiro_. On these two documents the reader can consult Masdeu, _Historia Critica de España_, tom. xii, p. 214, etc.; tom. xiii, 390; and tom. xvi--Voto de S. Thiago Suppl. 1.].--S.] [Endnote 8: (p. 7). _Sentences of St. Thomas and St. Gregory_, i.e., of St. Thomas Aquinas and Pope (St.) Gregory the Great (A.D. 590-604).]