[304] Navarrete, ii. 316.
[305] The Informe de la Real Academia says there is no proof of it; and of the famous inscription.—
“A Castilla y á Leon
Nuevo Mundo dió Colon,”—
said to have been put on his tomb, there is no evidence that it ever was actually used, being only proposed in the Elegías of Castellanos, 1588.
[306] They are in the Archives at Madrid. Harrisse found one in the Archives of the Duke of Veraguas (Los restos, etc., p. 41). The orders are printed by Roque Cocchia, Prieto, Colmeiro, etc.
[307] Harrisse, Los restos, p. 44.
[308] Pricto, Exámen, etc., p. 18.
[309] Colmeiro, p. 160.
[310] Quoted in Harrisse, Les sépultures, etc., p. 22.
[311] Synodo Diocesan del Arzobispado di Santo Domingo, p. 13.