A 16th Century king brought several fish species to Spain. But is he ... though. "This tree that comes from Lebanon in the mid-1600s," she says. Philip II may be considered just one of many ...

Philip II of Spain - the most powerful monarch of the early modern period - was married to Queen Mary Tudor from 1554 until her death in 1558. But Philip was not merely Mary's King Consort.

FOR no reason that we can very satisfactorily explain, we have read this odd book quite through ; and at the end we are in doubt whether Mr. Gayarré, who is of Spanish extraction, wrote the work ...