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Abadia, General, 129
AbadÍa, Palace at, 88, 92
Aberdeen, Lord, 82
Absolutists, the, 5
Abu Abdullah, 59n
Addington, Henry Unwin—Plenipotentiary at Madrid (1829-33), 1, 73;
leaves Madrid, 124, 126, 127;
his pension, 135;
his criticism of Ford, 137, 141-4, 159, 163, 164, 193, 194;
his advice as to Clare Ford’s future, 212
Advertising, Hayward’s article on, 186
Agriculture in Morocco, 120
Agustina, “La Artillera,” the Maid of ZaragoÇa, 55
Airecillo, the, at the Alhambra, 41, 44, 47
Alagon, 134
Alameda Vieja, the, at Seville, 12, 18, 23, 128
Albaicin, the, 41
Albemarle Street, 182, 187, 190, 192
Alcantara, 88, 89, 92
Alcaravan (bittern), 69
Alcazar, the, 100, 105
Alcolea, 109
Alexander VI., Pope, 55
Alforjas (saddle bags), 124
las Alfujarras, jamon de, 139
Algeciras, Torrijos lands at, 19; 84, 86
Algiers, 120
Albania, 114, 117
Alhambra, the, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 51, 59n, 65, 72, 102, 108, 112, 114, 126, 146, 148, 161
Alicante, 54, 56, 57
Allan, Sir William, R.A., 170
“Ally Croaker,” 39
Althorp, Lord, 111
Alva, the Duke of, 89, 92;
life of, 205
Alva, Duke of, 122, 134
las Amarillas, Marques de, 10, 13, 98, 106, 108, 110;
the first man in Spain, 136, 137
Andalusia, rising in, 19
los Andes, Conde de, 77, 80, 81
Andujar, 35, 40, 42, 45, 49, 56, 65
Antequera, 117
Apsley House, article on, 214
Aqueduct at Merida, 32
Aranjuez, 131, 139
Arapiles, 91
Architecture, Spanish, article on, 204
Argamasilla de Alba, 30
Arjona, the Assistente, 13, 14, 15, 43, 87, 107
Armament, the, for Portuguese expedition, 83
Armeria, the, 70
Arnold, Dr. Thomas, 134n, 219
Arrests for sketching, 57
Ass, the, 7, 56
Asses’ milk, 71
AthenÆum, the, 214
AthenÆum, the, at Exeter, 155
Ay de mi, Alhama, 117
Azulejos, 82, 83, 148
Babylon, walls of, 156
Bacalao (dried fish), 107
Badajoz, 32, 77, 79;
artillery ordered to, 80; 81, 88, 91
Bara, 46
Barbate, the, 20
Barbary, travelling in, 117
Barcelona, 54, 55, 57, 59, 60;
description of, 61; 110;
Llauder expelled from, 136
Baring, 90
Barings, the Miss, 171
Barranco de San Juan, the, 128
Bassetlaw job, the, 53
Batushka (Borrow), 192
Baylen, 49
Benalua, 66
Benavente, 92
“Bene” (Mrs. Clare Ford), 220
Benin, Bight of, 197
Berja, lead mines at, 37
Bermudez, Cea (or Zea), 1, 2, 114
de Berry, la Duchesse, 99n
“Bessy,” 219
Best, Mr., 167
Bible in Spain, the, quoted, 20, 21; 180-4
Bigge, Captain, 27, 31
Bilbao, 88, 93
Boabdila, 59n
Boars, wild, 18
Bodleian Library, the, 146
Bodmin, 207
Borgia, CÆsar, 35, 55
Borrow, George, on Quesada, 20;
Zincali, 179;
Bible in Spain, 180-4;
his Greek servant, 180; 185;
his biography, 185, 189;
at Oulton Hall, 190, 191, 192; 194, 202
Bory de Saint Vincent, 143
Botiga, the, 40, 67
Bowring, Dr., 147, 149
Boyd, Robert, 73, 74, 75, 76, 93
Brackenbury, Sir John, Consul at Cadiz, 31, 72, 76, 83, 112, 115, 128, 138
Brasero, the, 12, 16
Brazilian Slave Trade, the, 198, 199
British and Foreign Review, the, 179
“Brook, Master,” 40
Brougham, Lord, 17n
Broughton, Lord, 217
la BruyÈre, quoted, 151
Bull fights, 102, 103;
in honour of Princess Isabella, 122;
Ford’s article on, 122n, 163, 165, 166, 167
Buller, Colonel, 102, 103, 107, 110
Bulteel, Mr., 149
Bunyan, John, 181, 183
Burdett, Sir Francis, 24, 52
Burgos, 59, 61, 93, 109, 110
Burra, 56
Burton, Professor Edward, his Antiquities of Rome (1821), 171
Burton, Robert (author of the Anatomy of Melancholy), 202
Bustard, the, 18, 69
Byron, Ada (Lady Lovelace), 151
Byron, Lord, 95, 117n, 151, 152;
The Corsair, 199
Cadiz, the Cortes at, in 1812, 3;
fr 60992-h-4.htm.html#page_148" class="pginternal">148 seq.
Ephesus of Mariolatry, the (ZaragoÇa), 55
Escribano, the, at Manzanares, 131
Escurial, the, 53
de EspaÑa, the Conde, 61, 98;
replaced by Llauder, 136?
Essex, Lord, 43, 160
Estcourt, T. G. Bucknall, M.P., 154
Estcourt, Eleanor Anne (Mrs. Addington), 154
Estefa, JosÉ Maria retires to, 99
Estremadura, 92
Eton, school bills at, 189;
Montem, 192; 212
Exeter, 134, 135, 136;
its library, 135, 140; 144, 145, 146;
old furniture from, 146;
railway to, 192;
July (1846) assizes at, 197
Exmouth, 175, 196, 197
Falmouth, 138
Faraday, Michael, 218
Faure, 143
Felicidade, the, 197, 198
Ferdinand VII., 1, 4;
his restoration, 4;
his marriage, 4;
his character, 5;
his health, 74, 79, 98, 114;
his children, 97;
restores the Salic law, 97;
winters at Seville, 103;


his letter to the Captains General, 114;
his patronage of art, 140, 141;
his death and funeral, 133, 134, 188
Ferdinand and Isabella (Prescott’s), reviewed by Ford, 166, 168
Ferdinand the Catholic, 109
Fergusson, 205
Fez, 120
Flax, cultivation of, 208
Flegras, General, 87
Florida Blanca, court of, 122
Foote, Samuel, 39n
Ford, Frances (wife of Thomas Hughes), 134n, 219
Ford, Francis Clare, 155, 212, 213, 214;
his examination in international law, 218;
his marriage, 218;
G.C.B., 213, 214;
at Naples (1852), 213;
at Paris (1856), 216, 217;
at Lisbon (1857), 220
Ford, Georgina (wife of Mowbray Northcote), 206
Ford, James, 134, 137, 219.
Ford, Mary Jane (wife of Edmund Tyrwhitt), 206
Ford, Meta (wife of O. J. F. Crawford), 186n, 207
Ford, Richard, as a sportsman, 18, 19;
birth of a son, 25;
his son’s death, 98;
birth of a daughter, 104;
his return to England, 125, 133;
at Park Street, 133, 166, 203, 206, 207, 208, 219;
at Southernhay, 135, 137;
his pocketbooks, 137, 138;
illness of his son, 155;
his second marriage, 160, 161;
his daughters, 185, 189;
their marriages, 206;
his church building, 192, 193;
his third marriage, 207;
Bright’s disease, 216;
visits his son in Paris, 216;
Commissioner on the site of the National Gallery, 218;
his death, 220;
and see Reviews
Ford, Lady, her death, 206
Ford, Mrs. (the first), her Pajez guitar, 53;
her health, 15, 70, 74, 76, 78, 82, 83, 88, 93, 98, 104, 106, 110, 123, 125;
her riding habit, 108, 135;
her silver box, 111, 113, 115, 116;
her death, 156, 157
Ford, Mrs. (the second), 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 188, 192, 196;
her health, 205;
her death, 206
Ford, Mrs. (the third), 207, 208
Fords, the five Miss, 137
Fowling-pieces, 18, 19
Francisco de Paula, 97, 99, 102, 103n
Frias, Duke of, 122
Fulford, Mr. Baldwin, jun., 149
Gaffer George,” 55
Gaisford, Dr., 203
Galignani’s newspaper, 15, 26, 52, 57, 93, 94, 99, 127
Game, at Seville, 18, 19
Garofalo, Marquis, 218
Garofalo, Annie (wife of Clare Ford), 218
Gaspacho (soup), 100
Gatherings from Spain, 138, 204
Gayangos, Don Pascual, 201, 202
Gazette de France, the, 136
Generalife, the, 41, 48, 109, 110
George III., 188
George IV., 114
Germany, 201
Geronimo, church of, in Madrid, 121
de Gersdorf, Mr., 43
Gibraltar, 9;
Torrijos at, 19; 23;
officers kidnapped at, 75; 85, 121, 138
Gil Blas, 181, 183
Gipsies in Spain, the (Borrow), 179, 183n
Giralda, the, 23
Giron, General, 10, 13;
see Marques de las Amarillas
Godoy, 99n
Godson, Mr., 198
Gorro, the, 130
Granada, the Duke of Wellington on, 3;
climate, etc., 34, 35; 40, 49, 51, 90, 99, 108, 109, 110, 116, 117, 121, 124, 125, 129, 166
Grant, 134, 135
Grazalema, 86
Greenwich, whitebait at, 208
Greville Memoirs, the, 17n, 101n, 124
Grey, Lord, his ministry, 17
Griffiths’, at Gibraltar, 138
Grimaldi, 119
Guadairo, the, 85
Guadalete, the, 85
Guadalquivir, the, 18
Guarroman, 130
Guerilleros, 210, 211
Guisado de Perdices, 49
Gurwood, Lt.-Col., his Wellington Dispatches, 166
Gutierez, 103
de Guzman, Alonzo Perez (El Bueno), 84, 85, 103, 138
Guzman, Don Rafael, 103
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, author of Sam Slick, 167
Handbook for Travellers in Spain, the (1845), 66n, 138, 173-9, 184, 186, 187, 188, 190, 192;
first edition cancelled, 193, 194, 195, 196;
(1846), 197, 201, 202;
second edition (1847), 204;
third edition (1855), 214, 215
Hats, in Granada, 50, 51
Havre, 172
Hawtrey, of Eton, 192
Hay: see Drummond Hay
Hayward, Abraham, 186
Head, Sir Edmund, 128;
his book reviewed by Ford, 128; 139, 143, 144
Heaphy, Captain, 66, 70, 90, 140
Heavitree, 146 seq., 150;
Elizabethan apartment at, 154,
finished and furnished, 154, 155;
the garden-house at, 173
Heraldry, Spanish, article on, 163
Hermes, the, 115, 116
Hierro, Oliver y, Governor of Cadiz, 20
Hildebrand, 195
Himno del Riego, el, 4
Historical Inquiry into the unchangeable character of a war in Spain, 158
Holbein, 110
Holland, Lady, her sheets, 100
Holy War, the, 35
Holy Week, 112, 114
Hoppner, Mr. R. B., 52
Horner, Mr., 102
Horse’s Foot, the, article on, 204
Houston, Sir William, Governor of Gibraltar, 76, 85
Howell, James, his EpistolÆ Ho-elianÆ, 138?
Huelva, cholera at, 127; 128
la Huerta, composer of the Hymn of Riego, 4
Hughes, Thomas, 134?, 219
Humboldt, 202
Hurdes: see Jurdes
Ibrahim Pacha, defeats the Turks at Konieh, 115
Igualada, 64
Illustrated London News, the, 218
Income tax, the, 184
India, after the mutiny, 220
Infantado, Duke of, 122
Influenza, the, 155, 193
Inglis, H. D., his Spain in 1830, 56
Inkerman, 217
Inquisition, the, restored by Ferdinand VII., 4
International Law, Clare Ford’s examination in, 218
Irish Church Question, the, 148
Irun, 6
Irving, Washington, 3, 36, 117, 202
Isabella, Queen, 96, 109
Isabella, Princess, birth of, 5, 97;
proclaimed queen, 5; 96, 98;
recognized as heiress to the throne, 121; 99?, 114
Isla de Leon, 4
“Jaca cordovese,” 8
Jaen, 35, 40, 46, 47, 49, 50, 65, 69, 87;
cholera at, 129
“Jamon de las Alfujarras,” 139
Jamones, 203, 90
Massenas, the, 210
Matilda, 169
Meara: see O’Meara
Medina Celi, 134
Medina Sidonia, 85
Mehemet Ali, 115
Melbourne, Lord, 148
Mengibar, 130
Merida, 32, 88, 89, 92
Merry Wives of Windsor, The, 40?
Mexico, Humboldt’s book on, 202
“la Mezquita,” at Oulton Hall, 191
Miguel, Dom, 5, 74, 81, 99;
his fleet destroyed, 101; 103
Miguelites: see Miquelites
Milan, 172
Milman, Dean, 218
Mina, General, 136?
MinaÑo, Diccionario de EspaÑa, 172, 174, 176, 187
Miquelites, or Miqueletes, the, 35, 36, 40, 42, 45, 49, 50, 56
Mohammed I. (Ibn-al-Ahmar), 59?
Molesworth, Sir Arscott Ourry, 207
Molesworth, Miss Caroline, 208
Molesworth, Miss Mary (third wife of Richard Ford), 207
Molesworth, Sir William, M.P., 207;
in the Cabinet, 215;
Colonial Secretary, 215;
his last illness, 215;
his death, 216
Molesworth, Dowager Lady, the 207
de Molina, Francisca (“Tia Antonia”), and the Alhambra, 36, 37, 54, 72, 114


Monet, Don Juan Antonio, of Algeciras, 81, 86, 87
Monserrat, 55, 61, 63
Montaigne, 202
Montanches Porkers, 203
Moreno, Vicente Gonsalez, Captain-General of Malaga, 72, 73;
of Granada, 73; 76, 77, 78, 98, 106
Morgan, Lady, 150, 151
de Mornay, Charles, 90
Morning Post, the, 197
Muchacha, 148
Munich, 201
Murcia, 90
Muriel, 110
Murillo, 11
Murray, John, 164, 165, 167, 172, 173, 177, 178, 179;
Memoir of John Murray, 180, 184; 185, 186;
his death, 187, 188, 190, 193, 194
Murviedro, 55, 58, 60
MusÉe Standish, the, 8
Nagle, Jane Francis (Mrs. James Ford), 134n
Napier, Admiral Sir Charles, 101
Napier, Sir W. F. P., his Peninsular War, 128, 143, 193, 209
Napier, Macvey, Editor of the Edinburgh Review, 186
Napoleon, his system of supplies, 209 seq.
Narvaez, 193
National Gallery, the, 218
Nicholas I., 18
Nightingales in the Alhambra, 48
“No-popery” disturbances in Devonshire, 194, 195
Northcote, Mowbray, 206
Northcote, Stafford, 149, 206
Norwich, Borrow at, 191
OcaÑa, 131
O’Connell, 147, 149, 170, 190
O’Donnel, General, 81
O’Lawlor, General, agent for the Duke of Wellington (Don JosÉ), 3, 32, 37, 41, 46, 48, 49, 51, 58, 69, 80, 83, 87, 102, 105, 106, 108, 111, 113;
his tailor, 123;
birth of a daughter, 126; 128, 129
Oliver Twist, reviewed by Ford, 169
Olive wood, for burning, 105
O’Meara, 66, 70, 90
O’Neil, General, 69, 71, 77, 78, 105, 106
Oporto, occupied by Pedro IV., 74;
the Hermes at, 116
Ormerod, Miss, 208
Orvieto, 172
Ossuna, 116
Ottley, Sir Richard, 171;
his daughter, 171
Oulton Hall, 190, 191
Oviedo, 93
Oxford, Ford at, 146, 202, 203
Oxholm, Colonel, 65
Painting, Spanish, Ford’s article on, 204
Pajez, Juan, his guitars, 53n, 111
Palmerston, Lord, 14, 69, 73, 159
Palms, the city of: see Elche
Palo santo (wood), 53n
Paris, 216
Parker, Mr., M.P. for South Devon, 148, 149, 150
Partizans, convoy intercepted by, 209
Partridges, 46, 47, 49
Pascoe, Captain, 44
Pasqual, 54, 56, 62, 63, 64
Passports for Mr. F. J. Lewis, 95, 102;
and cholera, 130
Patio de los Leones, the, 41, 72, 126
Pavito, roast, 47
Pearson, Mr., his watch, 50
Pedro IV., 5;
resigns the throne of Brazil, 74;
occupies Oporto, 74; 88, 94, 99, 100, 101, 103, 128
Pedroza, Ramon, 38
Peel, Sir Robert, 52, 148, 187
Pelissier, Marshal, 199
Pencarrow, 207
Penny CyclopÆdia, the, 184, 185
Percy, Captain, of the Malabar, 116
Perry, James, of the Morning Chronicle, 169
Philip II., 122;
Prescott’s Philip II., 205
Philip V., 96
“Philosophical Radicals, the,” 207
Philpotts, Dr. Henry, Bishop of Exeter, 149, 150, 154, 194, 195
Phipps, Constantine Henry, first Marquis of Normanby, 169, 170
Phoenicians, the, introducers of cob walls, 156
Picacho de la Veleta, 50, 52, 54, 83, 128
Pidcock’s lions, 41
Pilar: see El Pilar
Pincian, pines from the, 146
Pindar, of Seville, 43
de Pineda, Maria, 38, 41, 42, 45
Pirates, execution of, at Exeter, 199
Placencia, 88, 89, 91, 92
Plato, 150
Platt, Mr. Baron, 198
Plaza de Alcala, the, 63
Plaza de la Carne, the, at Seville, aqueduct at, 11
Plaza de la Constitution, the, 3
Plaza del Duque, the, at Seville, 11
Plaza Mayor, the, at Madrid, 122
Plazuela San Isidoro, the, at Seville, 8
Poland, revolution in, 24
Policy of England towards Spain (pamphlet), 159
Polpette, 171
Pompeii, 190
Porchester, Lord, 52
Porrit’s Unreformed House of Commons, 53n
Portland mutton, 188
Portugal, civil war in, 5, 74;
armament against, 78; 79, 83, 88, 91, 126
Prado, the, at Madrid, 125
de Prats, Miquel, 35
Prescott, W. H., his Ferdinand and Isabella reviewed by Ford, 166, 168;
his Philip II., 205;
on the Handbook, 202
Presidarios, the, 72
Protestants buried at Malaga, 73
Puchero, 5, 139, 165
Puerta del Vino, the, at the Alhambra, 161
Punch, 182
“Purissima,” the, 60
Pusey, Dr., 203
Puseyism at Oxford, 203
Pynes, 206n
Quarterly Review, the, 122, 128, 134, 137, 138, 155, 158, 159, 160, 169, 182, 183, 186, 204, 205, 214, 218
Quesada, Captain General of Andalusia, 20, 21, 26, 28;
of Madrid, 20, 98;
Borrow on, 20, 21; 61, 75, 87, 95;
reforms the police, 106; 107, 108, 110;
his character, 136
Quesada, Madame, 108, 110
Queso de albaricoqui, 42
Quintas, 91
Quixote, Don, 30
Rabat, 120
Rack Street, Exeter, 146
Radford, Mr., his establishment, 145
Radnor, Lord, 17
Rafaello ware, 174
Ravasa, or Ravisa, 59, 62, 70, 89
Reading, 154
Reform Bill, the, 52, 53
Register chest from Exeter Cathedral, 146
Retford, East, borough of, 53
Reviews and Articles, by Ford:—
Apsley House (Quarterly Review, March 1853), 214
Bible in Spain (Edinburgh Review, February 1843), 182-6
Cob Walls (Quarterly Review, April 1837), 155, 156, 159
Horse’s Foot, the (Quarterly Review, June 1846), 204
Larpent’s Journal (Edinburgh Review, July 1853), 214?
Oliver Twist (Quarterly Review, June 1839), 169
Prescott’s Ferdinand and Isabella (Quarterly Review, June 1839), 166, 168
Ronda and Granada (Quarterly Review, March 1839), 166
Semilasso in Africa (Quarterly Review, July 1837), 158, 159
Spanish Architecture (Quarterly Review, March, 1846), 204
Spanish Bull-feasts and Bull-fights (Quarterly Review, October 1838), 122?, 163-5
Spanish Heraldry (Quarterly Review, June 1838), 163
Spanish Lady’s Love (Quarterly Review, September 1846), 204
Spanish Painting (Quarterly Review, June 1848), 114
Tio, Jorge, 55
Tiles (azulejos), 82, 83, 148
Toledo, 53, 92, 185
Tom Brown’s School Days, 134?;
reviewed by Ford, 134?, 218
Toreadors, 103?
de la Torre, Frasquito, and his robbers, 86
Torrijos, General, 19, 21, 31, 72;
lands near Malaga, 73;
surrenders, 73;
death of, 73
Toulouse, 170
Tragala, the, 4
Transportation, Sir W. Molesworth and, 215
Travelling in Spain, 6, 28, 29;
in Morocco, 119
Triana, suburb of Seville, 24
Triunfo, the, 38
Twickenham, 208
Tyrwhitt, Edmund, 206
Tyrwhitt, Sir Henry, 206
Tyrwhitt-Jones, Sir T., Bart., 206
Urdax, Moreno murdered at, 73
ValdepeÑas, 30, 66, 126, 153
ValdÈs, General, 136
Valencia, 54, 55, 57, 58;

pictures at, 60
Valladolid, 59, 81, 89, 93
Vega, the, 39, 83
Vega, Lope de, 89
Vejer, fight at, 20, 26; 85
Velazquez, 96;
Ford’s Life of, 184, 185
Venta de Cardenas, the, 30
Venta de Quesada, the, 30
Vera, capture of, 136
Via Babuino, the, 175
Vigo, the Hermes at, 116
Villiers, George, Minister at Madrid, 124, 125, 127;
his dinners, 134
“Viscarium diaboli,” 138
Visiting, 16, 17;
in Morocco, 119
Vitoria, 94;
Ford’s picture, 209, 212
Wasp, H.M.S., 197
Watches, cheap, 50
Water at the Alhambra, 42, 44, 47
Waterloo, 212, 217
Watt, James, 107
Weare, Mr., 191
Wellesley, Henry, 95
Wellington, Duke of, 3, 10, 13, 32, 37, 51, 82, 91, 92, 94, 128, 167, 184, 187, 193, 209, 210, 212, 214
Western Times, the, 198
Westmorland, Lord, 107
Wetherell, Mr., his tannery at Seville, 1
Wetherell, Sir Charles, 52
Weymouth, 170, 186, 188
White, Mr. Fernando, 16
Widdrington: see Samuel Edward Cook
Wilkie, David, 170
Williams, Don Julian, Consul at Seville, 72, 82
“Wilsons,” Ford’s, 176
Winchester, 219
Women, the “viscarium diaboli,” 138
Xativa, San Felipe de, 54, 56, 57
Xeres, 72, 76, 79, 84, 86, 87, 138
Xenil, the, cypresses from, 146
Yes or No, 169
Zafra, 89, 92
Zagal, the, 35, 134
Zamarra, the, 173, 191
Zamora, 94
Zandunga, salsa de, 139
ZaragoÇa, 54, 55;
the Maid of, 55;
first siege of, 55;
second siege of, 56; 57, 59, 61
Zincali, Borrow’s, 179, 183
Zouave medals, 217
Zurbaran, 200

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] General Sir George Don.

[2] The free warehousing of goods at the Port of Cadiz was permitted from 1828 to 1832, when the increase of smuggling led to its abandonment.

[3] The Marques de las Amarillas, who had been War Minister in 1820, was nominated by Ferdinand VII. to the Council of “Regency.” He was appointed Captain-General of Andalusia in 1832.

[4] Don Julian Williams, Consul at Seville, and, in Ford’s opinion, the best judge of Spanish pictures then living.

[5] Lord Lyndhurst, according to Greville (Memoirs, ed. 1888, vol. ii. p. 69), expected that the Great Seal would be put in commission, and that, after a few months, he would fill the office again. Brougham’s acceptance of the Lord Chancellorship upset his calculations.

[6] Greville makes the same criticism, and enumerates six members of the Grey family who were provided for in the distribution of offices. (Ibid., p. 80.)

[7] Bible in Spain (ed. 1896), vol. i. p. 181.

[8] Bible in Spain, p. 204.

[9] A Summer in Andalucia (G. Dennis), vol. i., p. 264, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1839.

[10] Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Brackenbury, the Consul at Cadiz.

[11] Samuel Edward Cook, Captain in the Royal Navy, assumed in 1840 the name of Widdrington. He published in 1834 Sketches in Spain during 1829-32 (London, 2 vols. 8vo). He paid a second visit to Spain in 1843, accompanied by Professor Daubeny, then Professor of Botany and Chemistry at Oxford. Of this visit Captain Widdrington gives an account in his Spain and the Spaniards in 1843 (London, 2 vols. 8vo, 1844).

[12] L’Espagne sous Ferdinand VII. Par le Marquis Astolphe de Custine. 4 tomes, 12º, Bruxelles, 1838.

[13] “Widow of a Brigadier” at Granada, says Captain Cook (Sketches in Spain, vol. i., p. 327).

[14] “Ally Croaker” is a song in Foote’s comedy The Englishman in Paris (1753): it was sung by Miss Macklin to the guitar.

[15] Alluding to the name assumed by the husband of Mrs. Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

[16] Half a farthing the pitcher.

[17] Probably Ford had advised Addington to wear a cheap watch for fear of brigands. To have no watch at all was construed as an attempt to cheat the robber of his legitimate reward, and exposed a traveller to worse treatment than a slender purse.

[18] In 1830 the Parliamentary area of the corrupt Borough of East Retford was enlarged by the addition of the Hundred of Bassetlaw, in which the delinquent borough was situated (1 Wm. IV. c. 74). The borough electorate was thus increased by the forty-shilling freeholders who already voted in the elections for their county. (Porritt’s Unreformed House of Commons, vol. i. p. 16.)

[19] The guitars made at Cadiz by Juan Pajez, and his son Josef rank with the violins of Stradivarius. The best have a backboard of dark wood called Palo Santo.

[20] Vicente Joanes, or Juanes (1523-1579).

[21] Francisco Ribalta (1551-1628).

[22] Spain in 1830. By H. D. Inglis, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1831.

[23] Mohammed I. (Ibn-al-Ahmar), 1238-71, is said to have begun the Alhambra in 1248. When he returned from the surrender of Seville, his subjects saluted him by the title galib or conqueror. He replied “Le galib ile Allah” (“There is no conqueror but God”). The words are everywhere introduced in the building as the founder’s motto. El Rey chico was the name given to Abu Abdullah (corrupted by the Spaniards into Boabdila), the last Moorish King of Granada.

[24] El Santo Rostro, the impression of our Saviour’s face on the handkerchief of St. Veronica, was only shown to the public on great festivals.

[25] Ford’s Handbook for Travellers in Spain is dedicated to Sir William Eden, Bart., “in remembrance of pleasant years spent in well-beloved Spain.”

[26] Don Juan Antonio Monet, appointed Minister of War October 1832.

[27] The village of Arapiles was the Duke of Wellington’s position at the battle of Salamanca, July 22nd, 1812.

[28] The visit which John Frederick Lewis (1805-76) paid to Spain (1832-4) was a turning-point in his artistic career. Till then he had devoted himself almost exclusively to animals. His Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra were published in 1835, and his Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character in 1836. Frederick Christian Lewis, the father of “Spanish” Lewis, was a well-known engraver and landscape painter.

[29] The Infante, Francisco de Paula, youngest child of Maria Luisa, wife of Charles IV., was said to be her son by Godoy. He married the Princess Carlota, sister of Queen Christina and the Duchesse de Berry. His son was King Consort of Isabella II. (1846).

[30] A cuarto is a copper coin of the value of four maravedis, i.e. about a farthing.

[31] Captain (afterwards Admiral Sir George) Sartorius, was in 1831 appointed to command the Portuguese fleet acting for Maria da Gloria against Dom Miguel. His command was successful. But the final blow was struck by Captain (afterwards Admiral Sir Charles) Napier, who succeeded him in June 1833. Napier destroyed Dom Miguel’s fleet off Cape St. Vincent, July 3rd, 1833. The news reached London on July 14th, “to the great delight of the Whigs and equal mortification of the Tories” (Greville Memoirs, ed. 1888, vol. iii. p. 9).

[32] The Maestranza was a corporation of gentlemen, instituted by Charles V., to improve the breed of horses, encourage equestrian exercises, and control the management of amphitheatres. Men of rank and good family, like Don Rafael Guzman, rarely adopted the profession of toreador. But the Infante, Don Francisco, was at the head of a movement to revive the art of bull-fighting.

[33] Sir Walter Scott died September 21st, 1832.

[35] The Egyptian troops under Ibrahim Pacha, son of Mehemet Ali, defeated the Turks at Konieh, December 21st, 1832. The Sultan appealed for aid to the Czar, who ordered 30,000 troops and 12 sail of the line to go to the protection of Constantinople. Further hostilities were averted by the treaty of Kutayah, May 1833.

[36] The capture of Alhama, the key to Granada, February 28th, 1482, prepared the way for the expulsion of the Moors. Ay de mi, Alhama! (“Woe is me, Alhama!”) is the refrain of Byron’s “very mournful ballad” (Poems, vol. iv., pp. 529-34, ed. 1901).

[37] Spanish Bull-feasts and Bull-fights. By Richard Ford. Quarterly Review, No. CXXIV., October 1838, pp. 395-6.

[38] Sir Edmund Head wrote, among other works and translations, A Handbook of the History of the Spanish and French Schools of Painting (London, 1848), which was reviewed by Ford in the Quarterly Review, No. CLXV., June 1848, pp. 1-37.

[39] A volume of the sketches of David Roberts was published in 1837, under the title of Picturesque Sketches in Spain.

[40] James Ford (1797-1877) was ordained in 1821, and became a Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral in 1849. A good classical scholar, he was a voluminous writer, chiefly on religious and moral subjects. In 1825 he married Jane Frances Nagle. Their eldest daughter married Thomas Hughes, the author of Tom Brown’s School Days, which Richard Ford, himself a contemporary of Arnold at Winchester, reviewed in the Quarterly Review for October 1857, the last article he ever wrote.

[41] General Manuel Llauder commanded the Royalist troops against the Liberal leaders Mina and ValdÈs in Navarre, and by the capture of Vera, October 1830, had suppressed the rising. As Inspector-General of Infantry, he was chosen by Queen Christina, in October 1832, to replace the Conde de EspaÑa, an avowed Carlist, as Captain-General of Catalonia. Ford probably means that Llauder, who at first had been inclined to moderate Liberalism, grew reactionary in his views. It was his later political opinions which made his appointment as Minister of War in 1835 so unpopular, and in July 1835 led to his expulsion from Barcelona.

[42] James Howell’s EpistolÆ Ho-elianÆ; Familiar Letters, Domestic and Foreign, etc., 4 vols., 1645-55.

[43] The ItinÉraire descriptif de l’Espagne (par Alexandre de Laborde, 5 tomes, Paris, 1806-21) was edited by Bory de Saint Vincent in 1827, who, in 1823, had published a Guide du Voyageur en Espagne (Paris, 1823).

[44] The two articles, one on the Spanish Theatre, the other a review of Semilasso in Africa, appeared in No. CXVII. of the Quarterly Review (July 1837), pp. 62-87 and 133-64 respectively.

[45] Mariana Starke wrote Travels in Europe for the use of Travellers on the Continent, and likewise in the Island of Sicily. To which is added an account of the remains of ancient Italy. (1st Edition, 1820; 8th Edition, 1833.)

[46] Reprinted from the Memoir of John Murray. By Samuel Smiles, vol. ii. pp. 491-2.

[47] The Bible in Spain. By George Borrow, London, 1842 (2 vols. 12mo).

[48] “Mr. Borrow’s book on the Gipsies of Spain, published a couple of years ago, was so much and so well reviewed (though not, to our shame be it said, in our own journal), that we cannot suppose his name is new to any of our readers.”—Quarterly Review, No. CXLI. (Dec. 1842), p. 169.

[49] ‘Meta’ Ford, born October 1840, the only child of Richard Ford’s second wife, married Oswald John Frederick Crawford, and died in 1899. She inherited much of her father’s wit, love of art, and conversational ability.

[50] Histoire de la RÉvolution en Espagne. 3 vols. Leipzig, 1829-31.

[51] Georgina Ford married the Rev. Mowbray Northcote, third and youngest son of Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bart., of Pynes, near Exeter.

[52] Mary Jane Ford married Edmund Tyrwhitt, second son of Sir T. Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart.

[53] Miss Caroline Molesworth, Mrs. Ford’s aunt, was a distinguished botanist and meteorologist, whose scientific papers were edited by Miss Ormerod (Cobham Journals: Meteorological Observations, London, 1880, 8vo).

[54] He also reviewed Larpent’s Journal in the Edinburgh Review for July 1853 (vol. xcviii. pp. 216-40).

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