[Note 2: Navarrete states that the two Italians had known one another intimately prior to the siege of Granada.

The bailiff whispered the prior significantly, and from that moment his deportment towards the Genoese took still more of the character of formal and official respect.

"But wilt thou not give me another twelvemonth to pay my debt?" "Not another day," said the Prior sternly.

ROGER OF WENDOVER, an early English chronicler, lived in the 13th century; was a monk of St. Albans and subsequently prior of Belvoir; wrote a history of the world down to Henry III.'s reign, the only valuable portion of it being that which deals with his own times.