[120] "Para seguridad de su persona pagó arcabuceria de guardia, que fue creciendo hasta quatrocientos hombres."—Mendoza, Guerra de Granada, ubi supra.
[121] "Siguió nuestra orden de guerra, repartió la gente por escuadras, juntóla en compañias, nombró capitanes."—Ibid. ubi supra.
[122] This, which is two years later than the date commonly assigned by historians, seems to be settled by the researches of Lafuente. (See Historia General de España (Madrid, 1854), tom. xiii. p. 437, note.) Among other evidence adduced by the historian is that of a medal struck in honour of Don John's victory at Lepanto, in the year 1571, the inscription on which expressly states that he was twenty-four years of age.
[123] Vanderhammen, Don Juan de Austria, fol 3.—Villafañe, Vida y Virtudes de Doña Magdalena de Ulloa (Salamanca, 1722), p. 36.—See also Lafuente, Historia de España, tom. xiii. p. 432.
This last historian has made the parentage of John of Austria the subject of a particular discussion in the Revista de Ambos Mundos, No. 3.
[124] Vanderhammen, alluding to the doubts thrown on the rank of his hero's mother, consoles himself with the reflection that, if there was any deficiency in this particular, no one can deny that it was more than compensated by the proud origin of her imperial lover.—Don Juan de Austria, fol. 3.
[125] Lafuente, Hist. de España, tom. xiii. p. 432, note.
[126] Gachard, Retraite et Mort de Charles-Quint, tom. ii. p. 506.
In a private interview with Luis Quixada, the evening before his death, the emperor gave him six hundred gold crowns to purchase the above-mentioned pension.
[127] This interesting document was found among the testamentary papers of Charles the Fifth. A copy of it has been preserved among the manuscripts of Cardinal Granvelle.—Papiers d'Etat, tom. iv. pp. 499, 500.