Note 621 — IV 1580-1706

The 1652 edition speaks of coroneis (p. 277) who, it has been argued, were called mestres de campo till 1708 (Goes, however, in his Cron. de D. Manuel, 1619 ed., f. 213, has os fez todos quatro coroneis de mil homens; cf. Gil Vicente, i. 234: Corregedor, coronel); it refers (p. 393) to João IV as still alive (†1656): Que Deos guarde e prospere. It would appear to have been written at two periods, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, unless the passages implying the earlier date are as deliberately misleading as the 1652 title-page.