Transcriber’s note

• Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected.
• Original spelling was kept, but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant usage was found.
• To aid referencing places and names in present-day maps and documents, outdated and current spellings of some proper names follow:

  Albaracin,	now Albarracín,
  Albuquerque,	now Alburquerque,
  Alemtejo,	now Alentejo,
  Algesiras,	now Algeciras,
  Almanza,	now Almansa,
  Arzobispo,	now El Puente del Arzobispo,
  Baccelar (Manuel),	now Manuel Pinto de Morais Bacelar,
  Ballasteros,	now Ballesteros,
  Barba del Puerco,	now Puerto Seguro,
  Baylen,	now Bailén,
  Bussaco,	now Buçaco,
  Caamano,	now Caamaño,
  Caçeres,	now Cáceres,
  Canonge,	now La Canonja,
  Çaragoça,	now Zaragoza,
  Cattlar,	now El Catllar,
  Cordova,	now Córdoba,
  Corunna,	now La Coruña,
  Douro,	now Duero (in Spain), and Douro (in Portugal),
  Estremadura,	now Extremadura (for Spain), and Estremadura (for Portugal),
  Estremos,	now Estremoz,
  Golegão,	now Golegã,
  La Baneza,	now La Bañeza
  La Bispal,	now La Bisbal,
  Lousão,	now Lousã,
  Majorca,	now Mallorca,
  Momblanch,	now Montblanch,
  Niza,	now Nisa,
  Ona (river),	now Güeña (río),
  Oña (river),	now Oñar (río),
  Ouguella,	now Ouguela,
  Pampeluna,	now Pamplona,
  Peñacova,	now Penacova,
  Peniscola,	now Peñíscola,
  Ripol,	now Ripoll,
  São João de Ribiera,	now São João da Ribeira,
  Saragossa,	now Zaragoza,
  Senabria,	now Sanabria,
  Sta Olalla,	now Santa Olalla,
  Tagus (river),	now Tajo (Spanish), Tejo (Portuguese),
  Tondella,	now Tondela,
  Torienzo,	now Turienzo de los Caballeros,
  Truxillo,	now Trujillo,
  Vierzo,	now El Bierzo,
  Vincente,	now Vicente,
  Vittoria,	now Vitoria,
  Xeres,	now Jerez,

• Chapter headers and Table of contents have been made consistent.
• In some devices page display may need to be rotated in order to see tables in their full width.
• Some images and most maps are rotated for the benefit of e-readers. Enlarged images and maps, unavailable in e-readers, are in their unrotated presentation.
• Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the book.
• The anchor placements in the main text for footnotes [219], [247] and [777] are conjectured. No anchors were found in the printed original.
• Two anchors were found for footnote [160], both in p. 125; only one has been retained.
• In p. 302, end of paragraph, the adjective “best” has been added to obtain the more usual reading: “the best condition”.