Note 79 — IRON-WORK
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“To Master Bartholomew, rexero, twenty gold ducats for the days he took in travelling from Jaen, and for those on which he was at work upon the reja of the high altar here in Seville.” On March 18th, 1524, the same craftsman was paid 13,125 maravedis for making the “samples and other things belonging to the reja of the high altar.”—Libro de Fábrica of Seville Cathedral. Gestoso, Sevilla Monumental y Artística, and Diccionario de Artífices Sevillanos, vol. xi. p. 362.