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 tures of old age are loathsome to the last degree. The Friar seems to have been afflicted with every infirmity which can render age helpless, wretched, and disgusting. It may be worthy of mention, that he says he had past seven stones, in consequence of taking ivy berries. The last hundred and fifty questions are almost all in prose, dull prosing answers to dull questions from Monks and Nuns; chiefly from two noble Sisters, both old women, the one of whom was Abbess of St. Clara de Tordesillas, the other a Nun in the same Convent. At the end of the second volume he repeats his assertion, that he has finished two hundred more questions, in order that the whole number may be a thousand.

Nicolas Antonio not having discovered Escobar's name, notices the book under that of Federicus Henriquiz, and says of the Admiral, Non facile pro germano ingenii sui monumento venditari