[36] The capture of Alhama, the key to Granada, February 28th, 1482, prepared the way for the expulsion of the Moors. Ay de mi, Alhama! (“Woe is me, Alhama!”) is the refrain of Byron’s “very mournful ballad” (Poems, vol. iv., pp. 529-34, ed. 1901).
[37] Spanish Bull-feasts and Bull-fights. By Richard Ford. Quarterly Review, No. CXXIV., October 1838, pp. 395-6.
[38] Sir Edmund Head wrote, among other works and translations, A Handbook of the History of the Spanish and French Schools of Painting (London, 1848), which was reviewed by Ford in the Quarterly Review, No. CLXV., June 1848, pp. 1-37.
[39] A volume of the sketches of David Roberts was published in 1837, under the title of Picturesque Sketches in Spain.
[40] James Ford (1797-1877) was ordained in 1821, and became a Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral in 1849. A good classical scholar, he was a voluminous writer, chiefly on religious and moral subjects. In 1825 he married Jane Frances Nagle. Their eldest daughter married Thomas Hughes, the author of Tom Brown’s School Days, which Richard Ford, himself a contemporary of Arnold at Winchester, reviewed in the Quarterly Review for October 1857, the last article he ever wrote.
[41] General Manuel Llauder commanded the Royalist troops against the Liberal leaders Mina and Valdès in Navarre, and by the capture of Vera, October 1830, had suppressed the rising. As Inspector-General of Infantry, he was chosen by Queen Christina, in October 1832, to replace the Conde de España, an avowed Carlist, as Captain-General of Catalonia. Ford probably means that Llauder, who at first had been inclined to moderate Liberalism, grew reactionary in his views. It was his later political opinions which made his appointment as Minister of War in 1835 so unpopular, and in July 1835 led to his expulsion from Barcelona.
[42] James Howell’s Epistolæ Ho-elianæ; Familiar Letters, Domestic and Foreign, etc., 4 vols., 1645-55.
[43] The Itinéraire descriptif de l’Espagne (par Alexandre de Laborde, 5 tomes, Paris, 1806-21) was edited by Bory de Saint Vincent in 1827, who, in 1823, had published a Guide du Voyageur en Espagne (Paris, 1823).
[44] The two articles, one on the Spanish Theatre, the other a review of Semilasso in Africa, appeared in No. CXVII. of the Quarterly Review (July 1837), pp. 62-87 and 133-64 respectively.
[45] Mariana Starke wrote Travels in Europe for the use of Travellers on the Continent, and likewise in the Island of Sicily. To which is added an account of the remains of ancient Italy. (1st Edition, 1820; 8th Edition, 1833.)