[1052] Córtes de Leon y de Castilla, II, 344.—Jovellanos, Informe, pp. 48-80.
The exorbitant privileges of the Mesta were largely curtailed by the Córtes of Cádiz, but were promptly restored by Fernando VII, in a decree of October 2, 1514 (Coleccion de Cédulas etc., p. 170).
[1053] Zavala y Auñon, pp. 104-30.—Jovellanos, p. 44.
[1054] Relazioni Lucchese, p. 29.—For the multifarious laws respecting the coinage see Autos Acordados, Lib. V, Tit. xxi.
[1055] Discorsos apolóxicos (Coll. de Doc. inéd., LXXI, 220).
[1056] I owe this passage to Professor James Harvey Robinson’s “Readings in European History,” II, 25.
[1057] Colmeiro, Córtes de los antiguos Reinos, II, 223.
[1058] Relazioni Venete, Serie I, T. III, p. 256, 287; V, 18; VI, 360.
[1059] Relazioni Lucchese, pp. 58, 70.
[1060] Discurso político (Semanario erúdito, II, 143).