The friar's recordsof Castile, Aragon, and Prance, follow:
n c... .. CASTILE. "There are in the Kingdom of Castile /Twenty-eight cities and many other towns, castles, and villages."
ARAGON. "I departed from the Kingdom of Granada and went to the Kingdom of Aragon, a very rich and well supplied/Kingdom. c.cr-' I found five great cities in it. The chief one, where the
kings are crowned, is Zaragosa (Saragossa).	........... The
king has for his device nine pales gules and or." (Nine strokes of red and gold.)
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The legend concerning this device tells that far hack in
history an heiress of Aragon married the Count of Barcelona, and the gold shield of the latter was adopted by the kingdom.
After a battle, however, the Count wiped his bloody fingers down
the shield, and thereafter it became "or with five pales gules" gold with five red strokes.
PRANCE. "I left Tolosa and turned along the coast of the country of Burdeo (Bordeaux), and then to Rochela (La Rochelle), a rich city of Prance, and thence I -went to the point of Sanmae, which is in the provinceof Bretanea (Brittany); thence to the Gulf of Samalo (St, Kalo), and thence to the province of Nor-mandia (Normandy). All these are in the Kingdom of Francia (Prance), where there are many cities, towns, and villages.
.............. The	King	of	Prance	has	three fleurs de lys of
gold."
Geographic Magazine, Oct. 1917, p 391.

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