[P. 41.] Add. 28,463 has been already described in Vol. III., pp. 418-9.
[P. 54.] Add. 23,724, 84: D. Fernando de Velasco r. “Don Fernando [Joseph] de Velasco.”
[P. 64.] Add. 28,436, 14: the Marquesa (marchioness) of Zara or Zahara was Da. Vitoria de Toledo-Colonna, wife of D. Luis Ponce de Leon, marquis of Zara, there alluded to.
[P. 65.] ” ” 57: D. Damian, add “Armenta?”
[P. 68.] ” ” 90 (last line): compania r. “compañia.”
” ” ”120: A Uzeda; that is, to D. Christoval de Sandoval y Rojas, son of the Duke of Lerma, Don Francisco.
[P. 69.] ” ” 156: Don Gul. is probably an abbreviation of “Don Guillen.”
” ” ”182: Don Juan Antonio da Vera, Figueroa y Zuñiga, count de la Roca, wrote several books; the one here mentioned must be El Embaxador, printed at Seville in 1620.
[P. 71.] ” ” 227: as immediately after the congratulatory address to Philip III. on the birth of a son, there follows another (No. 228) upon the marriage of his eldest son and heir [Philip IV.], it will be found that the prince or infante—on whose birth the Duke congratulated King Philip III.—could not be Carlos, but Alfonso, born on the 22nd of September, 1611, and who died in September 1612. In October 1615, the marriage by proxy of Philip with Isabella, the daughter of Henri IV. of France and Marie de Medicis, took place, though the matrimonial settlements had been signed three years before, in 1612. See Florez: Reinas Catolicas de España, Madrid, 1751, 4to, vol. ii., p. 95. As to Don Carlos and Don Fernando, the other two sons of Philip III., the former lived until the 10th of July, 1632; and as to the latter, who was made Archbishop of Toledo and Cardinal at the age of ten, and subsequently appointed Governor of the Low Countries, his death took place at Brussels in November 1641.
[P. 87.] Add. 28,440, 117: Decreto del Marques, 1584, r. “1654.”