[221]. Philip is represented as wearing such a collar in his portrait by Velazquez at Dulwich College.
[222]. Although he confesses that when most of the great folks had retired, and daylight lit up the scene of revelry, great numbers of people were found hidden in the shrubberies.
[223]. On the spot where the Bank of Spain now stands, until a few years ago the site of the palace and grounds of the Marquis of Alcañices.
[224]. Appendix to Mesonero Romanos’ ‘El Antiguo Madrid.’ An account of this feast, though much less full, is also given in the newsletters of the date published by Sr. Rodriguez Villa in ‘La Corte de España en 1636 y 1637.’
[225]. The policy and aims of Olivares are fully set forth in ‘Spain, Its Greatness and Decay,’ Cambridge Historical Series, by Martin Hume.
[226]. Olivares was notoriously offensive to ladies. On one occasion when Isabel gave an opinion on State affairs he told Philip that monks must be kept for praying and women for child-bearing.
[227]. One hundred and fifty persons in Madrid alone were cast into dungeons for not being liberal enough with their contributions on this occasion.
[228]. Relatione dell’ Ambasciatore di Venetia (MS. British Museum, Add. 8,701), and also an account attributed (doubtfully) to Quevedo, printed in vol. iii. of the Semanario Erudito.
[229]. News letter of 11th October in Semanario Erudito, vol. xxxiii.
[230]. Matias de Novoa, ‘Memorias.’ He was one of Philip’s chamberlains.