[17] Maldonado, op. cit. pp. 65, 71, 72, 83.—Barrantes, Ilustraciones de la Casa de Niebla, Lib. VIII, cap. iii.—Hazañas valerosas de Pedro Manrique de Lara (Memorial histórico español, T. VI, pp. 123, 126).—Hernando del Pulgar, Crónica, P. I, cap. lxxxiii.
[18] Maldonado, op. cit., pp. 23, 52, 71, 73.
[19] Clemencin, Elógio de Doña Isabel, p. 127.
[20] Castillo, Crónica de Enrique IV, cap. cliii.
[21] Pulgar, Claros Varones de España (Elzevir, 1670, p. 6).—Castillo, op. cit. cap. cxliii.—Saez, Monedas de Enrique IV, pp. 3, 7, 23 (Madrid, 1805). At the Córtes of Segovia, in 1471, Henry ordered the destruction of all the private mints, but it is not likely that he was obeyed (Córtes de Leon y de Castilla, III, 830, Madrid, 1866). Garcia López de Salazar, a contemporary, tells us that the gold Enriques were originally 23½ carats fine, but those struck in the royal mints gradually fell to seven carats, while the private mints made them what they pleased.—Saez, p. 418.
Spanish coinage is an intricate subject, and as some knowledge of it is necessary for the proper understanding of sums of money referred to hereafter, I have given a brief account of it in the Appendix.
[22] Córtes de los antiguos Reinos de Leon y de Castilla, IV, 59-68.—Novisima Recopilacion, Lib. III, Tit. v, ley 10, 11.—Barrantes, Ilustraciones de la Casa de Niebla, Lib. VIII, cap. xxii.—Garibay, Compendio Historial, Lib. XVIII, cap. xvi.—Don Clemencin (op. cit. p. 146).
At the death of Henry IV, in 1474, the royal revenue had fallen to about ten million maravedís. By 1477 it increased to 27,415,626, by 1482 to 150,695,288, and in 1504, at the death of Isabella, it was 341,733,597.—Clemencin, p. 153.
[23] Miscelánea de Zapata (Mem. hist. español, T. XI, p. 332).
[24] L. Marinæus Siculus de Reb. Hispan. (R. Beli Rer. Hispan. Scriptt, p. 774).—Damiani a Goes Hispania (Ibid. p. 1237).