[Footnote 8: El duque de Alcalá. In 1558 Philip II bestowed this title upon D. Pedro Afán o Enríquez de Ribera y Portocarrero, second Marquis of Tarifa, sixth Count of los Molares, and bearer of other titles as well. He was made viceroy of Naples in 1559, at about the age of fifty, and died some dozen years later. His wife was Doña Leonor Ponce de Leon, by whom he had no children. This is probably the duke referred to here, if we presume that the author had some definite duke in mind. The beautiful family mansion, known as la Casa de Pílatos, is still standing, a mixture of Gothic, Moorish, and Renaissance designs.]
[Footnote 9: San Pedro. The church of San Pedro, a Gothic structure of the fourteenth century, built on the site of a mosque, is situated near the modern market and not far from the University. The little square in front of the church bears the same name.]
[Footnote 10: callejón de las Dueñas. A short street called to-day Calle de Gerona. It connects the Plaza del Espiritu Santo and that of Sta. Catalina. This street received its name from the Cistercian nuns whose convent, destroyed in the revolution of 1868, was situated here.]
[Footnote 11: las del de Medinasidonia= 'those of the (Duke) of Medinasidonia.' In the fifteenth century Seville was the scene of many bloody frays between the hostile houses of Medinasidonia and Ponce de Leon, but through the intervention of Ferdinand and Isabella this enmity was happily terminated before the close of that century, long before the creation of the title of Duke of Alcalá. The dukedom of Medinasidonia was created in 1445 by Juan II, and the best-known duke of this name during the reign of Philip II was commander of the celebrated Armada (1588).]
Ya se han visto, ya se detienen unos y otros, sin pasar de sus puestos... los grupos se disuelven... los ministriles, á quienes en estas ocasiones apalean amigos y enemigos, se retiran ... hasta el señor asistente,[1] con su vara y todo, se refugia en el atrio... y luego dicen que hay justicia.
[Footnote 1: asistente. A magistrate in Seville, and certain other cities, whose duties and prerogatives corresponded with those of the corregidor elsewhere. This office came into existence in Seville about the middle of the fifteenth century, and was filled during the reign of Philip II by some fifteen asistentes in succession, most of them counts.]
Para los pobres....
Vamos, vamos, ya brillan los broqueles en la obscuridad.... ¡Nuestro Señor del Gran Poder[1] nos asista! Ya comienzan los golpes ¡vecina! ¡vecina! aqui... antes que cierren las puertas. Pero ¡calle! ¿Qué es eso? Aún no ban comenzado, cuando lo dejan. ¿Que resplandor es aquel? ¡Hachas encendidas! ¡Literas! Es el señor obispo.[2]
[Footnote 1: Nuestro Señor del Gran Poder. An epithet applied to Christ.]
[Footnote 2: obispo. Of course the archbishop is meant here. The Seville Archbishops during the reign of Philip II were D. Fernando Valdes, Inquisitor General (d. 1568), D. Gaspar de Zúñiga y Avellaneda (d. 1571), D. Cristohal de Roxas y Sandoval (d. 1580), and D. Rodrigo de Castro (d. 1600). See Fermín Arana de Varflora, Compendio descriptivo de ... Sevilla, 1789, za parte, p. 13.]