singular

1.Chancellor of the Chamber Seal. [CW]
2. Same as Escrivão da Puridade.

Vassal.

Letter of credence.

Purveyor of the Royal Household. (CW)

1. Bench, settle, or wooden seat with a high back and armrests. 
2. "Praça dos Escanos" is where Lourenço Martins da Praça lived and  raised Dom João, the future king, during his childhod. It was near the  Lisbon cathedral. There was also a "Rua dos Escanos", according to a letter by King Afonso V dated  1453. See Sousa Viterbo, Duarte Glavão e a sua Família: para um estudo Biográfico (Lisboa: Academia Real das Ciências, 1905), p.47.

1. Animate Prince.

1. Prologue.
2. Spelled 'prollogo' in CDP, Prologue. Lopes wrote the chronicles of all seven Portuguese kings who preceded King Pedro, but no reliable version of that part of his work has reached us. Here, he is probably mentioning the prologue he placed at its beginning. [TA]

1. Windlass-operated crossbow; windlass crossbow. [NF]
2. See explanation and illustration at: http://www.personal.ars-informatica.ca/paul/wot/wot.php?page=shen_calhar; see also: João Gouveia Monteiro, A Guerra em Portugal nos finais da Idade Média (Lisbon: Editorial Notícias, 1998), pp. 534-5. [NF]

1. Riverboat.
2. Skiff; scull.
3. Small rowing boat, typically for a singe person.
4. Batéis de naus: cutters; small ship's boats used to transport light cargo or passengers. [CKJ1, ch.116]

1. CDF, ch. 35, l. __.
2. bridge.
Ponte de barcas: bridge of boats (CDF, ch.35, l.__)