[20] 1231, N. 14, 16-17.
[21] Or, say, 1½ ft. by 1, ft.
[22] Llorente, “Historia Critica,” i. p. 135. Raynaldus 1233.
[23] Pulgar, “Chronica,” Part II. cap. li.
[24] Pulgar, “Cronica,” II. cap. iv.
[25] Pulgar, “Cronica,” II. cap c.
[26] The Jesuit Mariana is among those who doubt the story of St. James’s visit to Spain and the presence of his body at Compostella, but he considers that “it is not desirable to disturb with such disputes the devotion of the people.”—“Hist. General de España.”
[27] Colmenares, “Historia de Segovia,” cap. xxxiv, §§ xii and xiii; Pulgar, “Cronica,” II. cap. lix.
[28] Cap. cc. Bernaldez was the parish priest of Palacios at the time of the Queen’s death. He has left us a rather intimate history of the Catholic Sovereigns, fairly rich in vivid detail.
[29] “Hizo corrigir y castigar la gran disolucion y dishonestidad que habian en sus reinos cuando comenzó de reinar entre los frailes y monjas de todas las ordenes, y fizo encerrar las monjas de muchos monasterios que vivian muy dishonestas, asi en Castilla como en los reynos de Aragon y Cataluña.”—Bernaldez, “Historia de los Reyes Catolicos,” cap. cc.