[1039] Reconstitucion y Europeizacion de España, pp. 113, 123, 289 (Madrid, 1900).—Ricardo Macías Picavea, El Problema nacional, p. 304 (Madrid, 1899).
Another eloquent exposition of the deplorable condition of public affairs in Spain is Doctor Madrazo’s El Pueblo español ha muerto? (Santander, 1903).
[1040] Relazioni Venete, Serie I, T. V, p. 463.
[1041] Clemencin, Elogio de la Reina Isabel, p. 302 (Madrid, 1821).
[1042] Cabrera, Relaciones, passim; Append. pp. 582-3.—Relazioni di Ambasciadori Lucchesi, pp. 29, 31 (Lucca, 1903).
[1043] Cespedes y Meneses, Don Felipe Quarto, Lib. II, cap. i, x.
[1044] A. Rodriguez Villa, La Corte y Monarquía de España, p. 110 (Madrid, 1886).
[1045] Zanctornato, Relazione della Corte de España, pp. 76-82 (Cosmopoli, 1672).
[1046] Relasioni Venete, Serie I, T. V, p. 396.
[1047] The Córtes of 1570 complained of the sale of hidalguias, which were bought by the richer taxpayers, whose burden was thus thrown on the poor and miserable. To this Philip II replied that his necessities compelled him to it, but that more consideration would be shown in future.—Córtes de Cordova del año de setenta, fol. 5 (Alcalá, 1575).