[871] Relazioni Venete, Serie I, T. VI, p. 405.

[872] Juan Escobar de Corro, Tractatus bipartitus de Puritate et Nobilitate probanda, P. II, Q. iv, Art. 3, n. 1-2 (Lugduni, 1633).

[873] This little work came to be known as the Tizon de la Nobleza, or Blot on the Nobility. It was largely circulated in MS. and I have a MS. translation in French, showing that it was appreciated on both sides of the Pyrenees. It was finally printed in Barcelona, in 1880.

[874] Tratado de los Estatutos de Limpieza (Bibl. nacional, MSS., Q, 418).

[875] MSS. of Bodleian Library, Arch. Seld. A, Subt. 11.

[876] Tratado de los Estatutos de Limpieza (Bibl. nacional, MSS., Q, 418).

[877] Escobar, op. cit., P. I, Q. iv, § 3, n. 55-6; Q. xii, § 2, n. 46-50; Q. xiv,§ 4, n. 19; P. II, Q. ii, n. 85; Q. iii, n. 1 sqq.

[878] MSS. of Royal Library of Copenhagen, 218b, p. 402.

[879] MSS. of Bodleian Library, Arch Seld. A, Subt. 11.

[880] Archivo de Simancas, Gracia y Justicia, Inquisicion, Leg. 621, fol. 89.