[21] Ordenanza de Mesoneros, titulo 54.
[22] West Barbary, p. 129.
[23] Vol. v., pp. 301–304.
[24] “Spain lays claim to the invention of the art of gilding leather; it is asserted that, after being discovered there, the secret was carried to Naples by Peter Paul Majorano.”—Laborde, vol. v., p. 231.
[25] Count of Clonard; Memorias para la historia del traje español.
[26] Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones, Nos. 101, 102; Art. Guadamacíes.
[27] The Poem of the Cid tells us of the two chests, covered with red guadamecí, which the hero filled with sand to cheat the Jewish money-lenders:—
“Con vuestro consejo bastir quiero dos archas.
Incamosla d'arena, cá bien serán pesadas,
Cubiertas de guadamecí é bien enclavadas;
Los guadamecís bermeios é los clavos bien dorados.”
Nevertheless, the “coffer of the Cid” at Burgos (see p. [12]) does not appear to have been thus fitted.
[28] The same usage obtained in Morocco. Lancelot Addison wrote in 1669 that on the first day of their “Little Feast” the Moors across the Strait “spread the floor of their Giammas with coloured leather.”—West Barbary, p. 213.