[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 2½d. English money, but as a unit of value and computation it has been officially supplanted since 1870 by the peseta or franc of 9¾d. 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.