[16] Half a farthing the pitcher.
[17] Probably Ford had advised Addington to wear a cheap watch for fear of brigands. To have no watch at all was construed as an attempt to cheat the robber of his legitimate reward, and exposed a traveller to worse treatment than a slender purse.
[18] In 1830 the Parliamentary area of the corrupt Borough of East Retford was enlarged by the addition of the Hundred of Bassetlaw, in which the delinquent borough was situated (1 Wm. IV. c. 74). The borough electorate was thus increased by the forty-shilling freeholders who already voted in the elections for their county. (Porritt’s Unreformed House of Commons, vol. i. p. 16.)
[19] The guitars made at Cadiz by Juan Pajez, and his son Josef rank with the violins of Stradivarius. The best have a backboard of dark wood called Palo Santo.
[20] Vicente Joanes, or Juanes (1523-1579).
[21] Francisco Ribalta (1551-1628).
[22] Spain in 1830. By H. D. Inglis, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1831.
[23] Mohammed I. (Ibn-al-Ahmar), 1238-71, is said to have begun the Alhambra in 1248. When he returned from the surrender of Seville, his subjects saluted him by the title galib or conqueror. He replied “Le galib ile Allah” (“There is no conqueror but God”). The words are everywhere introduced in the building as the founder’s motto. El Rey chico was the name given to Abu Abdullah (corrupted by the Spaniards into Boabdila), the last Moorish King of Granada.
[24] El Santo Rostro, the impression of our Saviour’s face on the handkerchief of St. Veronica, was only shown to the public on great festivals.
[25] Ford’s Handbook for Travellers in Spain is dedicated to Sir William Eden, Bart., “in remembrance of pleasant years spent in well-beloved Spain.”