[258] Ponz, Viage de España, iv. 21, 22.
[259] Valdomar also built the chapel “de los Reyes,” in the convent of San Domingo, commenced 18th June, 1439, and completed 24th June, 1476. This convent is now desecrated, and I did not see it, but it is said still to contain a good Gothic cloister.
[260] Pedro Compte is mentioned as having been invited by the Archbishop of Zaragoza to a conference with four other architects as to the rebuilding of the Cimborio of his cathedral, which had fallen down in 1520.
[261] Viage de Esp., vol. iv. pp. 29, 30.
[262] Spain boasts other like treasures, e.g.—a figure still preserved at Mondoñedo, and which is still called “la Yuglesa,” because brought from St. Paul’s.—See Ponz, Viage de España, vol. iv. p. 43.
[263] Handbook of Spain, i. 367.
[264] Cean Bermudez, Arqua. y Aquos. de España, vol. i. p. 139.
[265] In May, 1862.
[266] Tarragona is the see of an archbishop, who claims to be equal, if not superior, to the Archbishop of Toledo. Practically, of course, he is nothing of the kind, yet he carries the assertion of his dignity so far that I noticed a Mandamos of the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo hung up in the Coro, in which his title “Primada de las Españas,” and the same word in “Santa Iglesia Primada,” were carefully scratched through in ink.
[267] España Sagrada, vol. xxv. p. 214.