ad been specially
employed in his service, as readers, preachers, and musicians, shall
receive such gratuities as shall appear sufficient to father Regla and
Quixada. To the confessor himself he bequeaths an annual pension of four
hundred ducats (about 80_l._ sterling), and four hundred ducats in
legacy. Of Luis Quixada he twice speaks in the most affectionate terms,
acknowledging his long and good service, and his willing fidelity in
incurring the expense and inconvenience of removing his wife and
household to Yuste. Lamenting that he has done so little to promote his
interest, he earnestly recommends him to the king's favor, and, with a
legacy of 2000 ducats, he leaves him a pension to the value of his
present appointment (without mentioning the sum), until he is provided
with a place of greater emolument. He also desires that the Infanta will
cause the amount of fines recovered by his attorney, or that might be
recovered in cases still pending against the poachers and rioters of
Quacos, to be paid into the hands of a person named by the executors for
distribution amongst the poor of the village. The contents of his larder
and cellar, and his stores of provisions in general, at the day of his
decease, and likewise the dispensary, with its drugs and vessels, he
leaves to the brotherhood of Yuste, and to the poor any money which may
remain in his coffers after defraying the wages of his servants.

These are all mentioned by name, and for the most part receive pensions,
except a few to whom small gratuities are given, it being explained that
previous provision has been made for them. The pensions range from four
hundred florins (32_l._ sterling), conferred on the doctor, Enrique
Mathesio, to ninety florins, which requite the services of Isabel
Plantin, the laundress of the table-linen. The gratuities vary from
150,000 maravedis (about 45_l._ sterling), left to the secretary
Gaztelu, to 7500, given to Jorge de Diana, a boy employed in the
workshop of Torriano. That mechanician being already pensioned to the
amount of 200 crowns, receives only 15,000 maravedis; he is likewise
reminded that he has been paid something to account on the price of a
clock which is in hand, and for which his employer is content that the
executors shall pay a fair valuation.

These sums were all to be paid at Valladolid. After the funeral service
was ended, therefore, on the 29th of October, when the count of Oropesa
and the other neighbors retu