[514] MS. 5,650 reads: “three sous.” The marcello was a silver Venetian coin weighing sixty-three grams. Two marcelli equaled one Venetian lira which was worth one and one quarter Italian lire. It was later also the name given to a silver coin of Francesco III, duke of Mantua, 1540–50. See Mosto, p. 98, note 7; and Hazlitt’s Coinage of European Continent.
[515] MS. 5,650 says that a couple of drinking-cups were given to each of the brothers.
[516] MS. 5,650 reads: “many pieces of artillery.”
[517] MS. 5,650 reads: “hagbuts and culverins.”
[518] MS. 5,650 reads: “relatives and friends.”
[519] MS. 5,650 reads: “as mistresses of the function, and arranged everything.”
[520] MS. 5,650 adds: “for a jest;” but omits the remainder of the sentence.
[521] St. James of Compostella, located in the Spanish province of Galicia. Alboquerque, the great Portuguese viceroy of India, bequeathed a large silver lampstand to St. James of Galicia, and a hundred thousand reis (about £20 16s 8d), in cash for oil at his death. The Portuguese convent of Palmela, located in Palmela, and under the charge of the Augustinians was the head-quarters of Santiago or St. James in Portugal. See Birch’s Alboquerque, iii, pp. 18, 19.
[522] MS. 5,650 reads: “hagbuts.”
[523] MS. 5,650 reads: “quill.”