{243a} Mr William Mark's (the British Consul at Malaga) Official account of the occurrence, 16th May 1838.

{243b} Ibid.

{243c} Despatch to Viscount Palmerston, 12th May 1838.

{243d} Ibid.

{244a} Despatch to Viscount Palmerston, 12th May 1838.

{244b} Ibid.

{244c} Sir George Villiers' Despatch to Viscount Palmerston, 12th May 1838.

{246a} The Official Translation among the Foreign Office Papers at the Record Office.

{246b} The Bible in Spain, page 578.

{247a} The Gypsies of Spain, page 241.

{247b} The Bible in Spain, page 579.

{249a} History of the British and Foreign Bible Society. By W. Canton.

{252a} On [11th] May 1838.

{253a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 17th May 1838.

{254a} Letter from Borrow to Rev. A. Brandram, 25th May 1838.

{255a} The Official Translation among the Foreign Office Papers at the Record Office.

{255b} Sir George Villiers to Count Ofalia, 25th May 1838.

{255c} Letter to Mr A. Brandram, 25th May 1838.

{256a} At the time of writing Borrow had not seen any of these tracts himself; but Sir George Villiers, who had, expressed the opinion that "one or two of them were outrages not only to common sense but to decency."--Borrow to the Rev. A. Brandram, 25th June 1838.

{256b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 14th June 1838.

{257a} Letter from Borrow to Rev. A. Brandram, 14th June 1838.

{257b} Ibid.

{259a} The quotations from Lieut. Graydon's tracts were not sent by Borrow to Mr Brandram until some weeks later. They ran:- A True History of the Dolorous Virgin to whom the Rebellious and Fanatical Don Carlos Has Committed His Cause and the Ignorance which It Displays.

EXTRACTS.

Page 17. You will readily see in all those grandiose epithets showered upon Mary, the work of the enemy of God, which tending essentially towards idolatry has managed, under the cloak of Christianity, to introduce idolatry, and endeavours to divert to a creature, and even to the image of that creature, the adoration which is due to God alone. Without doubt it is with this very object that on all sides we see erected statues of Mary, adorned with a crown, and bearing in her arms a child of tender years, as though to accustom the populace intimately to the idea of Mary's superiority over Jesus.

Page 30. This, then, is our conclusion. In recognising and sanctioning this cult, the Church of Rome constitutes itself an idolatrous Church, and every member of it who is incapable of detecting the truth behind the monstrous accumulation of impieties with which they veil it, is proclaimed by the Church as condemned to perdition. The guiding light of this Church, which they are not ashamed to smother or to procure the smothering of, by which nevertheless they hold their authority, to be plain, the word of God, should at least teach them, if they set any value on the Spirit of Christ, that their Papal Bulls would be better directed to the cleansing of the Roman Church from all its iniquities than to the promulgation of such unjust prohibitions. Yet in struggling against better things, this Church is protecting and hallowing in all directions an innumerable collection of superstitions and false cults, and it is clear that by this means it is abased and labelled as one of the principal agents of Anti-Christ."

{262a} The History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, by W. Canton.

{265a} This letter reached Borrow when his "foot was in the stirrup," as he phrased it, ready to set out for the Sagra of Toledo. He felt that it could only have originated with "the enemy of mankind for the purpose of perplexing my already harrassed and agitated mind"; but he continues, "merely exclaiming 'Satan, I defy thee,' I hurried to the Sagra. . . . But it is hard to wrestle with the great enemy." General Report, withdrawn.

{265b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 14th July 1838.

{265c} Mr Brandram informed Borrow that the General Committee wished him to visit England if he could do so without injury to the cause (29th June).

{266a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 14th July 1838.

{269a} The Bible in Spain, page 602.

{269b} Ibid., page 606.

{269c} Ibid., page 606.

{270a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 27th July 1838.

{270b} This would have been impossible. If his age were seventy- four, he would of necessity have been four years old in 1838.

{271a} By Mr A. G. Jayne in "Footprints of George Borrow," in The Bible in the World, July 1908.

{271b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 17th July 1838.

{273a} This letter, in which there was a hint of desperation, disturbed the officials at Earl Street a great deal. Mr Brandram wrote (28th July) that he was convinced that the Committee would "still feel that if you are to continue to act with them THEY MUST SEE YOU, and I will only add that it is UTTERLY FOREIGN TO THEIR WISHES that you should EXPOSE YOURSELF IN THE DARING MANNER YOU ARE NOW DOING. I lose not a post in conveying this impression to you."

{273b} The Translation of this communication runs:- "Madrid, 7th July 1838--I have the honour to inform your Excellency that according to official advices received in the first Secretary of State's Office, it appears that in Malaga, Murcia, Valladolid, and Santiago, copies of the New Testament of Padre Scio, without notes, have been exposed for sale, which have been deposited with the political chiefs of the said provinces, or in the hands of such persons as the chiefs have entrusted with them in Deposit; it being necessary further to observe that the parties giving them up have uniformly stated that they belonged to Mr Borrow, and that they were commissioned by him to sell and dispose of them.

"Under these circumstances, Her Majesty's Government have deemed it expedient that I should address your Excellency, in order that the above may be intimated to the beforementioned Mr Borrow, so that he may take care that the copies in question, as well as those which have been seized in this City, and which are packed up in cases or parcels marked and sealed, may be sent out of the Kingdom of Spain, agreeably to the Royal order with which your Excellency is already acquainted, and through the medium of the respective authorities who will be able to vouch for their Exportation. To this Mr Borrow will submit in the required form, and with the understanding that he formally binds himself thereto, they will remain in the meantime in the respective depots."

{275a} General Report, withdrawn.

{277a} Borrow's letter to the Rev. A. Brandram, 1st Sept. 1838.

{277b} To Lord William Hervey, Charge d'Affaires at Madrid (23rd Aug. 1838).

{278a} To Rev. G. Browne, one of the Secretaries of the Bible Society, 29th Aug. 1838.

{279a} To Rev. A. Brandram, 19th September 1838.

{279b} The Bible in Spain, page 621.

{279c} Letter to Dr Usoz, 22nd Feb. 1839.

{279d} Ibid.

{279e} Ibid.

{280a} The Report has here been largely drawn upon and has been referred to as "Original Report, withdrawn."

{282a} History of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

{284a} On the publication of The Bible in Spain the Prophetess became famous. Thirty-six years later Dr Knapp found her still soliciting alms, and she acknowledged that she owed her celebrity to the Ingles rubio, the blonde Englishman.

{285a} The Bible in Spain, page 627.

{285b} To Rev. A. Brandram, 25th Jan. 1839.

{286a} On 6th Feb. 1839.

{288a} Letter to Mr W. Hitchin of the Bible Society, 9th March 1839.

{288b} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 26th March 1839.

{290a} Letter to Rev. A. Brandram, 10th April 1839.

{293a} Letter to the Rev. A. Brandram, 2nd May 1839.