[21] The recognised Spanish title for the Host.
[22] Presbytery.
[23] “Here’s to the glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William, who delivered us from Popery, brass money, and wooden shoes!”
[24] Arriero, from arré! gee-up!
[25] As in Italian, the diminutive is a sort of endearing form of superlative.
[26] They were built at the end of the eleventh century. A singularly fine bit of work for so early a date.
[27] Moore was at Salamanca and his artillery at Talavera when Napoleon reached Madrid.
[28] The burial-place of the Kings of Aragon.