Footnotes:
[16] In Felipe II.'s time the normal value of an escudo de oro was 8s. 4-1/4d. The actual exchange value varied between seven and eight shillings.
[17] One real de vellón = 34 maravedís = 2 pence, 2 farthings, and 2/3 of a farthing. One real de plata = 2 reales de vellón. Unless otherwise stated, a real may be taken to mean a real de plata.
[18] See The Athenæum, April 12, April 19, and May 3, 1873.
[19] See Cristóbal Pérez de Pastor's Documentos cervantinos hasta ahora inéditos (Madrid, 1897), pp. 135-137.
[20] British Museum Add. MSS., 20, 812.
[21] This is taken by all English writers, and appears in the British Museum Catalogue, as a real name. I only reveal an open secret if I point out that it is a perfect anagram for Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, the excellent scholar to whom we owe the Cancionero musical de los siglos xv. y xvi. and the new edition of Encina's theatre.
[22] The seducer is conjectured to be Olivares' son-in-law, the Duque de Medina de las Torres.
[23] Lope's popularity spread as far as America. Three of his plays were translated into the nahuatl dialect by Bartolomé Alba. See José Mariano Beristain de Souza's Biblioteca Hispano-Americana (Mexico, 1816), vol i. p. 64.