A passage in Alonso Getino (op. cit., p. 349) describes Santa Maria as 'contemporáneo de los sucesos'. This, though literally true, is somewhat misleading. Santa Maria was twenty-four the year that Luis de Leon died. See Gallardo, op. cit., vol. IV, col. 489.
'...al principal de ellos [los que habían procurado el Breve] y pretensor de mitra, le costó la vida el sentimiento que tuvo de ver tan indignado al Rey Católico'. I have not been able to consult Jesús y Maria's work. My quotation, like Alonso Getino's (op. cit., p. 354), is taken at second-hand from Vicente de la Fuente's edition of Saint Theresa's works.
January 26, 1591, is the latest date attached to the Documentos published by Cristóbal Pérez Pastor, Bibliografía madrileña (Madrid, 1907), Parte III, pp. 404-409. On January 25, 1591, Luis de Leon signed a document undertaking to accept 1,000 reales in lieu of 2,800 due to him by the estate of Cornelio Bonard, formerly a bookseller at Salamanca; see Cristóbal Pérez Pastor, Bibliografía madrileña (Madrid, 1906), Parte II, pp. 454-455.