Privy Seal, 1839-41; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1840-1, 1864-5; Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1847-52. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1853-8, 1865-6, 1868-9. Died 27th June 1870.

{171a} The Bible in Spain, page 165.

{173a} Extracts accompanying letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 22nd March 1836.

{173b} Ibid.

{173c} Ibid.

{174a} Letter of 22nd March 1837.

{175a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 22nd May 1836.

{175b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 22nd May 1836.

{175c} Letter dated 6th April 1836.

{175d} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 20th April 1836.

{175e} Ibid.

{176a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 20th April 1836.

{176b} Ibid. Borrow's destitution was entirely accidental, and immediately that his letter was received at Earl Street the sum of twenty-five pounds was forwarded to him.

{177a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 20th April 1836.

{178a} Letter of 9th May 1836.

{178b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 30th June 1836.

{178c} Ibid.

{178d} Ibid.

{179a} The Duke's secretary who had shown so profound a respect for the decrees of the Council of Trent.

{179b} Late of the Royal Navy, who for sheer love of the work distributed the Scriptures in Spain, and who later was to come into grave conflict with Borrow.

{180a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 30th June 1836.

{181a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 7th July 1836.

{181b} Ibid.

{181c} Ibid.

{181d} Ibid.

{182a} Dr Usoz was a Spaniard of noble birth, a pupil of Mezzofanti, and one of the editors of El Espanol. He occupied the chair of Hebrew at Valladolid. He was deeply interested in the work of the Bible Society, and was fully convinced that in nothing but the reading of the Bible could the liberty in Spain be found.

{182b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 25th December 1837.

{182c} La Granja was a royal palace some miles out of Madrid, to which the Queen Regent had withdrawn. On the night of 12th August, two sergeants had forced their way into the Queen Regent's presence, and successfully demanded that she should restore the Constitution of 1812. This incident was called the Revolution of La Granja.

{183a} The Bible in Spain, pages 197-206.

{183b} 30th July 1836.

{183c} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 10th August 1836.

{184a} 17th October 1836.

{185a} The Bible in Spain, pages 209-11.

{185b} Ibid., page 211.

{186a} The Rev. Wentworth Webster in The Journal of Gypsy Lore Society, vol. i., July 1888-Oct. 1889.

{187a} Letter from Rev. A. Brandram, 6th Jan. 1837.

{188a} Isidor Just Severin, Baron Taylor (1789-1879), was a naturalised Frenchman and a great traveller. In 1821 he, with Charles Nodier, wrote the play Bertram, which was produced with great success at Paris in 1821. Later he was made Commissaire du Theatre Francais, and authorised the production of Hernani and Le Mariage de Figaro. Later he became Inspecteur-General des Beaux Arts (1838). When seen by Borrow in Seville he was collecting Spanish pictures for Louis-Philippe.

{189a} The Bible in Spain, page 221.

{190a} The Bible in Spain, page 237.

{190b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 26th Dec. 1836.

{191a} In letter to the Rev. A. Brandram (26th Dec. 1836), Borrow gives the quantity of brandy as two bottles. This letter was written within a few hours of the act and is more likely to be accurate.

{191b} The Bible in Spain, page 254.

{191c} Borrow's letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 14th Jan. 1837.

{191d} He was authorised to purchase 600 reams at 60 reals per ream, whereas he paid only 45 reals a ream for a paper "better," he wrote, "than I could have purchased at 70."

{192a} Author of La Historia de las Cortes de Espana durante el Siglo XIX. (1885) and other works of a political character. He was also proprietor and editor of El Espanol. Isturitz had intended raising Borrego to the position of minister of finance when his government suddenly terminated.

{192b} General report prepared by Borrow in the Autumn of 1838 for the General Committee of the Bible Society detailing his labours in Spain. This was subsequently withdrawn, probably on account of its somewhat aggressive tone. In the course of this work the document will be referred to as General Report, Withdrawn.

{192c} To Rev. A. Brandram, 14th Jan. 1837.

{193a} To Rev. A. Brandram, 14th Jan. 1837.

{194a} 27th January 1837.

{194b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 27th Feb. 1837.

{195a} Letter from Rev. A. Brandram to Borrow, 22nd March 1837.

{195b} Letter from Borrow to Rev. A. Brandram, 25th Dec. 1837.

{195c} Letter from Borrow to Rev. A. Brandram, 27th February 1837.

{195d} Rev. Wentworth Webster in The Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, vol. i., July 1888-October 1889.

{196a} General Report withdrawn.

{196b} General Report, withdrawn.

{196c} Borrow to Richard Ford. Letters of Richard Ford 1797-1858. Ed. R. E. Prothero. Murray, 1905.

{197a} Letter from Borrow to Rev. A. Brandram, 7th June 1837.

{197b} Ibid.

{197c} Ibid.

{198a} Letter from Borrow to the Rev. A. Brandram, 27th February 1837.

{199a} As the method adopted was practically the same in every town he visited, no further reference need be made to the fact, and in the brief survey of the journeys that Borrow himself has described so graphically, only incidents that tend to throw light upon his character or disposition, and such as he has not recorded himself, will be dealt with.

{200a} Via Pitiegua, Pedroso, Medina del Campo, Duenas Palencia.

"I suffered dreadfully during this journey," Borrow wrote, "as did likewise my man and horses, for the heat was the fiercest which I have ever known, and resembled the breath of the simoon or the air from an oven's mouth."--Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 5th July 1837.

{200b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 5th July 1837.

{201a} The Bible in Spain, pages 352-4.

{202a} The Bible in Spain, page 364.

{203a} This is the story particularly referred to by Richard Ford in report upon the MS. of The Bible in Spain.

{203b} In the Report to the General Committee of the Bible Society on Past and Future Operations in Spain, November 1838.

{204a} The Bible in Spain, page 409.

{204b} In The Bible in Spain Borrow says he was arrested on suspicion of being the Pretender himself; but in a letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 15th September 1837, he says that he and his guide were seized as Carlist spies, and makes no mention of Don Carlos.

{205a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 15th September 1837.

{205b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 29th September 1837.

{205c} By way of Ferrol, Novales, Santa Maria, Coisa d'Ouro, Viviero, Foz, Rivadeo, Castro Pol, Navaia, Luarca, the Caneiro, Las