[1]. Alonzo Ramirez wished to have the right of burial in the new monastery, but the nobles of Toledo looked on his request as unreasonable. See Foundations, chs. xv. and xvi.
[2]. See Way of Perfection, ch. viii.; but ch. v. of the previous editions.
[3]. See Book of the Foundations, ch. iii.
[4]. In the copy kept in Toledo, the day is Tuesday after the Assumption (De la Fuente).
[6]. St. John xiv. 23: "Ad eum veniemus, et mansionem apud eum faciemus."
[8]. Titus ii. 5: "Sobrias, domus curam habentes."
[9]. This took place in 1571, when the Saint had been appointed prioress of the monastery of the Incarnation at Avila; the very house she had left in order to found that of St. Joseph, to keep the rule in its integrity.
[10]. See Book of the Foundations, ch. xxviii.