[305] An inscription is given by Villanueva, Viage Literario, xviii. 162, said to be cut on the jamb of the side doorway, which records the consecration of this church on June 17th, 1453.
[306] See Appendix.
[307] Cean Bermudez, Arq. de España, i. 55. But Diego, ‘Historia de los Condes de Barcelona,’ p. 316, puts the foundation in A.D. 1293.
[308] Villanueva, Viage Literario, xviii. 165, mentions the convent of San Francisco as still existing (in 1851).
[309] Parcerisa, Recuerdos, &c., Cataluña, i. p. 107.
[310] See previous page.
[311] Cean Bermudez, Arq. de Esp., i. 70.
[312] Hala de paños.
[313] See España Sagrada, xlv. pp. 2-3. See also the deed executed by Bishop Roger in 1015. “Nostra necessitate coacti causa ædificationis prædictæ ecclesiæ, quæ satis cognitum cunctis est esse destructa, &c.”—Esp. Sag., xliii. p. 423.
[314] See the act of consecration, España Sagrada, xliii. pp. 432-437, which declares the church to have been rebuilt “a fundamentis.”