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[1] "The Moors in Spain." By Stanley Lane-Poole. 4th ed. 1890.
[3] Some writers have ascribed the five "inescutcheons" on the shield of Portugal to the five Moorish kings killed at Ourique, the version adopted by Camoens in "The Lusiads," canto iii. stanza 53.
[4] _Crucesignati Anglici Epistola de Expugnatione Olisiponis_, printed in vol. i. pp. 392, &c., of the _Portugalliæ Monumenta Historica_, published by the Academy of Lisbon.
[5] "Encyclopædia Britannica," 9th edition, Article "Portugal."
[6] Camoens, "Lusiads," canto iii. stanzas 96, 97, Burton's translation.