Yet not a Moorish gentleman and not a Moorish wife A maravedi offered for the mournful captive's life.

" "And I every maravedi I possessed," adds the Don.

This is also an effect of the revolution; for at the time I alluded to, a stranger in this country need not expend a maravedi in travelling; but those days, I fear, will never return.

[Footnote 1: Ochavosmall Spanish brass coin, value two maravedis.]

The gold was smelted and assayed, and found to be 450 maravedis per peso fine, which was not as fine as the gold obtained in la Española, but sufficiently so for the king of Spain's purposes, for he wrote to Ponce in November, 1509: "I have seen your letter of August 16th.

It was also a nominal money worth eleven pesetas and one maravedi.

In October of 1492 he had been appointed by the Queen, Contino de su casa, with a revenue of thirty thousand maravedis.

Peter Martyr's reception was not wanting in cordiality, the Queen, especially, expressing her gratitude for the important service he had rendered the Christian religion, and he received another appointment which augmented his income by thirty thousand maravedis yearly.

In 1520, Peter Martyr was appointed historiographer, an office yielding a revenue of eighty thousand maravedis.

He asked that his body should be borne to its grave by the dean and the canons of the cathedral, an honour to which his dignity of prior of that chapter entitled him; but in order to ensure the chapter's participation, as he quaintly expressed it, "with more goodwill," he set aside a legacy of three thousand maravedis as compensation.

In 1516 he was given an appointment by King Ferdinand, with 50,000 maravedis yearly and an estate in Andalusia.]