Crossword-Solution: LANAS 5 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Liceat insuper socijs de societate prćdictorum mercatorum infra regnum & potestatem nostram prćdictas, lanas vendere alijs suis socijs, & similiter emere ab ijsdem absque custuma soluenda.

Sed tamen priusquam alio diuertamur, in hac parte attingendum videtur, quod idem ille in mappa Islandić, quam sub suo nomine, prćdicto anno edi fecerat, de duobus, prćter supra dictos, fontibus Islandić prodidit: quorum alter lanas albas colore nigro, alter nigras, albo inficiat.

Quamuis autem sit incredibile, Lanas nigras albo infici colore, cum traditum sit a Plinio, Lanarum nigras nullum imbibere colorem: Tamen simile quiddam narratur ŕ Theophrasto: Flumen esse in Macedonia, quod oues nigras, albas reddat.

Maria's father was an honest farmer, by name Juan Lanas, a Christian old man and much beloved, who had inherited no mean estate from his forefathers, though with but little wit in his crown,--a lack which was the cause of much calamity to both the father and the daughter, for in the times to which we have attained, God forgive me if it is not necessary to have more of the knave than of the fool in one's composition.

Now it came to pass that Juan Lanas, for the castigation of his sins, must needs commit himself to a lawsuit with one of his neighbors about a vine stock which was worth about fifty _maravedis_; and Juan was in the right, and the judges gave the verdict in his favor, so that he won his case, excepting that the suit lasted no less than ten years and the costs amounted to nothing less than fifty thousand _maravedis_, not to speak of a disease of the eyes which, after all was over, left him blind.