[284] Examples of this are cited by Circourt, Hist. des Arabes d'Espagne, tom. iii. pp. 150, 151.
[285] Ibid. p. 163.
M. de Circourt has collected, from some authentic and not very accessible sources, much curious information relative to this part of his subject.
[286] Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, tom. x. p. 227.
[287] "Ils représentèrent que ce recensement allait leur révéler la secret de leur nombre effrayant; qu'ils fourmillaient."—Circourt, Hist. des Arabes d'Espagne, tom. iii. p. 164.
[288] "Qu'ils accapareaint tous les métiers, teut le commerce."—Ibid. loc. cit.
[289] Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, tom. x. pp. 239, 240.—Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, p. 641.—Zuñiga, Anales de Sevilla, pp. 536-538.
The chroniclers paint in glowing colours the splendours of the royal reception at Seville, which, enriched by the Indian trade, took its place among the great commercial capitals of Christendom in the sixteenth century. It was a common saying,
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| No ha visto á maravilla." |
[290] Herrera, Historia General, tom. i. p. 798 et seq.—Cabrera, Filipe Segundo, lib. vi. cap. 17.—Sagredo, Monarcas Othomanos, p. 277.