[[41]] So one of her servants who was present told Novoa.
[[42]] "I got a pension of 400 ducats," says Novoa; and he relates the whole of these grants and favours to those who had served Olivares.
[[43]] Amongst the skits was a placard that was stuck upon the palace gates, saying—
El dia de San Antonio
Se hicieron milagros dos;
Pues empezó á reinar Dios,
Y del rey se echó el demonio.
Saint Antonio's day did bring
Of miracles this twain,
'Twas then the Lord began to reign,
And devil cast from the King.
[[44]] Novoa and, also for other details, Newsletters in Valladares' Semanario Erudito, vol. xxxiii.
[[45]] Many of these particulars are taken from the Venetian narrative, British Museum MSS., Add. 8701.
[[46]] The work was confiscated by the Inquisition, and the supposed authors and the printer prosecuted; as were the attacks that gave rise to it.