I go to her chapel
And am never tired of crying.

{22} Isabella foresaw the advantages of free trade at a time when all
Europe groaned under the yoke of the most severe prohibitions. Not only
did she abolish all those which the fiscal legislation of Spain prior to
her times had sanctioned, but she had the merit of being the founder of
the first tribunal of commerce, and of expressly ordering that in all
matters of mercantile contract, shipwrecks, &c., submitted to her
judgment, barristers should take no part, so that the course of justice
might not be obscured with pedantic arguments and formal technicalities.

{25} The Spanish Protestants and their Persecution by Philip II. By Don
Adolfo de Castro. Translated from the original Spanish, by Tho. Parker.
Gilpin, London, 1851.

{26} _Novena_. A devotional practice applicable to the worship of all
saints, and consisting of music, prayer, mass, &c., and of _nine_ days'
duration.

{52a} "We must die."

{52b} "We already know it."

{57} Importunate and unwearied begging.

{59a} On the portico of the Franciscan convent, in Granada, is to be
seen a large marble slab, on which a sonnet is engraved, the first two
lines of which are:--

"En provincias doscientas y setenta,
Tiene Francisco doce mil conventos." {59b}

{59b} "In 270 provinces,
Francis has 12,000 convents."

{67} A kind of chick-pea, much used in Spain, especially in the _olla
podrida_.

{71a} A kind of talisman hung round the neck of devout persons, which
sometimes is supposed to contain relics of saints, pious prayers, or
images of the Virgin.

{71b} "Here lies Sister Belen,
Who made sweetmeats very well,
And passed her whole life
In dressing wax figures" [_of the infant Christ_].

{72} The great feudal lords who had jurisdiction over their own lands
were so called, because on the limits of those lands they fixed a gallows
(_horca_), with a large knife (_cuchillo_), as a symbol of their
privilege.

{75} Loved one, or sweetheart.

{77} The vestibules of the convents are called the _porteria_. They
lead to the cells of the friars, and are distinct from the entrances to
the church. All women are prohibited from entering these portions of the
cloisters.

{78} This name is given to a female who confesses to one ecclesiastic
exclusively, making him also the spiritual director of her conscience.
Some persons who profess to be extremely religious divide these functions