Acosta was head of the Jesuits' college at Valladolid, and, later, of that at Salamanca, where he died February 15, 1600. His brother Bernardo also became a Jesuit; was a resident of the City of Mexico in 1586, dying there May 29, 1613. For a fuller account of the former's life and works, see Introduction to Hakluyt Society's translation of his Historia natural y moral (London, 1880).
[24] (p. [149]).—Angelic Salutation: the salutation, "Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum," with which the archangel greeted the Virgin when he announced to her that she was to become the mother of Christ.—See Lee's Glossary of Liturg. and Eccl. Terms.
[25] (p. [151]).—The apparent omission of chap. xi., arising from a typographical error, is explained in the "Bibliographical Data," ante. The Factum alluded to was a controversial pamphlet "written and published against the Jesuits." The only copy known to us is in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. It was reprinted in 1887, with an introduction by G. Marcel, under the title, Factum du procés entre Jean de Biencourt et les Pères Biard et Massé, Jésuites: pp. xix-91. The publication was anonymous, but its authorship has been ascribed by many to Lescarbot. The succeeding six chapters of the present Relation are devoted by Biard to answering the Factum.—See Rochemonteix's Jésuites, vol. i., pp. 81-82.
[26] (p. [161]).—See vol. ii., notes [42], [59].
[27] (p. [161]).—See vol. i., note [2].
[28] (p. [165]).—See vol. i., note [25].
[29] (p. [165]).—See vol. i., notes [31], [37].
[30] (p. [169]).—See vol. i., notes [35], [36].
[31] (p. [173]).—In the Edict of Nantes, the Huguenots are referred to as followers of la religion prétendue réformée. Upon the significance of this term, see Atlantic Monthly, vol. lxxvi., p. 414.
[32] (p. [173]).—The consistory was a council or assembly composed of the ministers and elders of the Reformed churches.