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Tapestry of gold, silver, and silk, representing the Adoration

of the kings.

An altar-piece with doors, containing pictures of the Virgin and babe, and of the Annunciation of the Virgin, and adorned with nine gold medallions of various sizes, portraits of the emperor, the empress (2), king Philip (2), the queen of England, the queen of Bohemia (2), and the princess of Portugal.

Several other pictures of sacred subjects without names of

masters.

Three large books of paper, with drawings of trees, flowers, men, and other objects, from the Indies.

The great clock made by Master Juanelo, with its case, and the table of walnut-wood with cloth cover, upon which it stands in his majesty's chamber.

Another clock, of crystal, with its base, by the said Juanelo. Another clock, called the Portal.

Another, called the Mirror.

Others, round and small, for the pocket.

Six pieces of tapestry-landscapes.

Seven pieces, with animals and landscapes.

Twelve pieces, with foliage (verdura).

Five coverings for seats (bancales), with foliage.

Twelve hangings of fine black cloth for the apartments of the emperor (in the monastery).

Four door-curtains (ante-puertas) of black cloth.

Seven carpets (alfombras), four Turkish, and three of Alcaraz. Canopies (dosels) of fine black velvet.

A quantity of linen.

IN HIS MAJESTY'S CHAMBER.

Two beds, of different sizes.

Six blankets of white cloth.

Fourteen feather bolsters (colchones de pluma).

Thirty-seven pillows (almohadas), with much holland bedlinen (ropa de holando) of all kinds.

Six chairs, covered with black velvet.

His majesty's arm-chair, with six cushions and a footstool. Chair in which his majesty was carried, with its staves (andas de brazo).

Twelve chairs of walnut-wood, garnished with nails (tachonadas).

IN THE WARDROBE.

Sixteen long robes, lined with eider-down, ermine, Tunis kidskin, or velvet.

Six bornooses (albornoces) one of them presented to his majesty at Tunis.

IN THE STABLE.

Four mules of burden, one of them chesnut, and named 'Cardenala.'

A grey horse.

Two other mules.

IN THE HARNESS-ROOM.

A litter lined with black velvet, and mounted outside with steel. Delivered at Valladolid on the 26th of October, 1558.

Another, of smaller size, with a seat inside, lined with black serge and covered outside with leather.

The whole of the above property, not left in the monastery, was given over to the charge of Juan Esteque, keeper of his majesty's jewels, on the 1st of November, 1558.

INDEX.

THE following words have been abbreviated thus:-archduchess, ahdss.;
archbishop, ahbp.; bishop, bp.; cardinal, card.; church, ch.; convent, conv.;
count, c.; duke, d.; duchess, dss.; king, k.; prince, p.; princess, pss.; queen, q.

AA, 216

Abadia, 312

Abrantes, d. of, 279

Abrojo, 35, 160

Abruzzi, 141

Açaloras, Fr. J. de, 114, 222, 298

Alcaudete, M. de Cordoba, c. of, 217,
235

Acuña, F. de, 71, 112, 323

Acuña, J. de, 168

Adrian, the cook, 188

Adrian VI., pope, 194

Aguayo, Fr. A. de, 111
Aguera, 27

Aguilar, A. de, 236
Ajalon, valley of, 157
Alaexos, Fr. M. de, 315
Alaraz, 44

Alba, Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, d.

of, 53, 54, 66, 91, 92, 129, 130,
141, 143, 156, 157, 168, 169, 170,
223, 259, 282, 312

Alba de Tormes, 102, 151, 154
Albert, marg. of Brandenburg, 87
Alburquerque, d. of, 39, 129, 136, 220
Alcala, d. of, 276.

Alcala de Henares, 79, 81, 255
Alcanices, m. of, 202

Alcantara, grand commander of; see
Avila, L. de

Alcantara, order of, 118
Alcaraz, 327

Alcazar of Seville, 59

Alexander VI., pope, 193
Alexander the Great, 65
Alexandria, senna of, 90

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Ancona, 140

Andrea, A., 170
Andreas, V., 295
Angoulême, M. d', 275
Angulo, Fr. F. de, 249

Angulo, Fr. M. de, viii., xvii., xx.,
223, 248

Anna, q. of Hungary, xxx.

Anna, q. of Spain, xxx.

Anne of Austria, q. of France, 257
Anthony de Bourbon, k. of Navarre,
38, 56, 129, 135, 217, 279
Antonio, N., 87, 152, 210
Antwerp, 251

Appian, 111

Aquinas, St. Thomas; see St. Tho-
mas, and passim.
Aragon, admiral of, 165, 167
Aragon, cortes of, 85, 121
Aranjuez, 284

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Ason, 26

Asparagus, 149

Assisi, 95

Astorga, m. of, 36

Atocha, conv. of, at Madrid, 123
Atocha, Our Lady of, 123
Avalos, A. de; see Vasto, M. de
Avellanada, Fr. J. de, 278
Avendaño, M. de, 158

Avila, bp. of, 223

Aubremont, M. d', 25

Auctuarius Joannes, 295

Augsburg, xiii., 83, 108, 122

Austria, Don John of, xxx. 66, 68, 123,
186, 220, 237, 256, 270, 271, 285,
287, 288, 289, 296

Austria, Juana of, xxx.

Austria, Leopoldo of, bp. of Cordova,
132

Austria, Margaret of, xxx.

Austria, Piramo Conrado of, xxx.
Auto-de-fé at Valladolid, 283

Avila y Zuñiga, L. de, 70, 71, 75, 85,

108, 111, 154, 159, 162, 163, 169,
176, 178, 223, 238, 239, 249, 296,
323

Aytona, m. of, 279

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Bolivar, F., 158

Bonifaz, R., 23

Bordeaux, archbp. of, 23
Borja, Fern. de, 304

Borja, house of, 77

Borja, St. Francis; see St. Francis

Bossu, c. of, 274

Bourbon, constable de, 18

Bracamonte, 44

Bradford, Rev. W., 1, 48

Braga, 302

Braganza, C. de, 36

Brandenburg, Albert, marg. of, 87

Brantome, 21, 225

Bruges, 69

Brunswick, d. of, 273

Brusquet, 15

Bruxelles, 4, 13, 15, 66, 273

Bruxelles, Ph. de, 6

Bucer, 212

Buda, 130

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Casa del Cordon, 29
Castel-Gandolfo, 129
Castelvi, L. de, 217
Castille, admiral of, 36
Castille, cortes of, 224

Castro, A. de, 41, 171, 194, 197, 209,

310

Castro, J. de, 136

Catalogue of prohibited books, 1559,
206

Catalonia, 54

Cateau-Cambresis, 216

Catherine of Medicis, q. of France,
304

Catherine, q. of Portugal, xxx., 37,
137, 164

Cats of the emperor, 183
Cavallero, Fr. A., 318
Cavallero, J. G., 106

Cavalli, M. de', 250

Caudenberg, castle of, at Bruxelles, 4
Caya, 174

Cazalla, A., 200, 202, 208, 209

Celada, 31

Cellini, B., 108

Cervantes, M., 206, 263

Chambord, 304

Charlemagne, 155, 250

Charles V., emperor, vii.-xxii., xxx.
His intention to retire from the
world, 1

His abdication, 5-12

His retired life at Bruxelles, 13
He embarks for Spain, 17
Arrives at Laredo, 23

Journey to Valladolid, 26-33
Journey to Xarandilla, 42-46
His attention to public business,
51-56, 119-136

He visits Yuste, 57
Removes thither, 93

His health, 3, 89, 107, 119, 146,
167, 174, 183, 228

His way of life, 114, 117, 183

His love of eating, 60-62, 159
His revenue, 123

His grief on the death of q.
Eleanor, 178; and on the loss
of Calais, 173

His familiarity with the friars, 90,
186, 187, 255

His good nature to his servants,
188

His hatred of heresy, 201-204,
210, 237

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