Willoughby Lute Book (Nottingham Univ. Lib., Mi LM 16), fols. 38-39v, nº 30. An anonymous setting of 22 variations on Conde claros. It has concordances in The Marsh lute book and Cambridge U. Lib., MS D5. See Ward, Music for Elizabethan Lutes (MEL), vol. 1, 5, n.17. Ward writes, “Vihuelists may have been in Prince Philip’s entourage and that of some of the grandees who accompanied him during the time of the Spanish connection; this might account for the appearance of pieces by Narváez and the Conde claros variations in the Osborn [=Braye] and Willoughby Mss”, (MEL, vol. 1, 5)
• “Conde Claros” (Don Claros de Montalbán) was the protagonist of a popular Carolingian romance. See diaz1978