Note 72 — Appendices

It is not often, for instance, that we meet with notices of Spanish craftsmen such as Miguel Jerónimo Monegro, a silversmith of Seville, who at his death, towards the middle of the sixteenth century, was in a position to bequeath the following money and effects: 15,000 maravedis to his servant, Catalina Mexia, 6000 maravedis to Juan Ortiz, “a boy that was in my house, that he may learn a trade,” 6000 maravedis yearly to his slavewomen, Juana and Luisa, and a black mule to his executor, Hernando de Morales.—Gestoso, Diccionario de Artífices Sevillanas, Vol. II., p. 256.