[9] Cordeiro, op. cit., pp. 139-40, 1st. ed.
[10] Cordeiro, op. cit., p. 182, 1st ed.
[11] For a good comparison of the Letters of Marianna and Heloïse see an article entitled ‘La Eloísa Portuguesa’ in the June number of the review España Moderna, 1889, written by Emilio Pardo Bazán.
[12] Cordeiro, op. cit., p. 299, 1st ed.
[13] This syntactical extension of the sex to the patronymic was general in the seventeenth century. Vide Cordeiro, op. cit., p. 91, 1st ed.
[14] This should be 83. Cf. the extract from the Baptismal Register in Cordeiro, p. 285, 1st ed.
[15] This document was found and transcribed by Cordeiro on pp. 328-9 of his oft-referred-to work, 1st ed.
[16] Op. cit., Preface, p. xi.
[17] Memoires, vol. iii. pp. 372-3; Paris, 1873.
[18] Observation of Senhor Cordeiro, op. cit., p. 6, 1st ed.