CONCERNING THE

SPANISH NATION:

Written at MADRID during the Years 1760 and 1761.

By the Rev. EDWARD CLARKE, M. A.
Fellow of ST. JOHN's College, CAMBRIDGE, and Rector of
PEPPERHARROWE, in the County of SURRY.

Quantos payzes, tantos coftumbres.

LONDON:

Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT, at Tully's Head

in the Strand. MDCCLXIII.

CUSPIDE

CORONA

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

GEORGE BROD RIC K, LORD VISCOUNT MIDLETON, OF THE

KINGDOM OF IRELAND;

1

THESE LETTERS CONCERNING
THE SPANISH NATION

ARE INSCRIBED,

WITH THE SINCEREST RESPECT
AND GRATITUDE,

BY HIS LORDSHIP's

MOST OBLIGED,

AND OBEDIENT

HUMBLE SERVANT,

EDWARD CLARKE

TABLE of CONTENTS.

The PREFA CE,

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION,

LETTER I. Journey from London to Madrid,

II. The State of Religion in Spain,

III. Part I. Of the Government of Spain, the

Cortes, or Parliament, its Laws, Tribunals, Courts of

Judicature, &c.

III. Part II. Councils, Halls, and Tribunals,

IV. Part I. State of Literature, Letters, and

Men of Learning in Spain,

IV. Part II. State of Phyfic, Poetry, &c.

IV. Part III. Catalogue of Spanish Authors,

V State of Measures and Weights,

VI. View of the Stage,

VII. Part I. Description of the Bull-feaft, exhi-

bited on the prefent King's public entry, July 15, 1760.

VII. Part II. Burial---Grandees---King's Pub-

lic Entry,

VIII. Part I. Defcription of the Convent of St.

Laurence, commonly called the Escurial,

VIII. Part II. Catalogue of the Latin, Greek,

and Hebrew Manufcripts in the Library of the Con-

vent of the Efcurial,

IX. Defcription of the City of Toledo,

X. Defcription of the City of Segovia,

LETTER