Note 67 — Chapter VII · THE REGENCIES OF FERDINAND

[According to Bergenroth,u however, “the general opinion was that he had been poisoned,” and he insinuates that Louis Ferrer, Ferdinand’s envoy to Philip, was the person who rendered his master this service. But the suspicion is unsupported by a particle of evidence, and seems to be sufficiently refuted by a description of the symptoms and course of the disease, to be found in a letter addressed to Ferdinand by a Dr. Parra, one of the consulting physicians.]