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After his death, they continued to manifest a similar regard towards Don Juan, his eldest son, and heir of his ample honors and estates. Salazar de Mendoza, Dignidades, lib. 4, cap. 1.--Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS., bat. 1, quinc. 2, dial. 1, 2.

[11] Cardonne, Hist. d'Afrique et d'Espagne, tom. iii. p. 304.--Pulgar, Reyes Catolicos, cap. 109.--Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., lib. 2, epist. 73.

--Bernaldez, Reyes Catolicos, MS., cap. 92.

[12] Conde, Dominacion de los Arabes, tom. iii. cap. 40.--Mariana, Hist.

de Espana, tom. ii. lib. 25, cap. 12.--Pulgar, Reyes Catolicos, cap. 111.

[13] Pulgar, Reyes Catolicos, cap. 112.--Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, tom.

viii. p. 86.

[14] Bernaldez, Reyes Catolicos, MS.--Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., lib. 2, epist. 73, 80.--Pulgar, Reyes Catolicos, cap. 113, 114, 117.--Garibay, Compendio, tom. ii. p. 667.--Bleda, Coronica, p. 64.

The plague, which fell heavily this year on some parts of Andalusia, does not appear to have attacked the camp, which Bleda imputes to the healing influence of the Spanish sovereigns, ”whose good faith, religion, and virtue banished the contagion from their army, where it must otherwise have prevailed.” Personal comforts and cleanliness of the soldiers, though not quite so miraculous a cause, may be considered perhaps full as efficacious.

[15] Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., lib. 2, epist. 73.--Pulgar, Reyes Catolicos, cap. 116.

[16] Pulgar, Reyes Catolicos, cap. 118.--Archivo de Simancas, in Mem. de la Acad. de Hist., tom. vi. p. 311.

The city of Valencia lent 35,000 florins on the crown and 20,000 on a collar of rubies. They were not wholly redeemed till 1495. Senor Clemencin has given a catalogue of the royal jewels, (see Mem. de la Acad. de Hist., tom. vi. Il.u.s.tracion 6,) which appear to have been extremely rich and numerous, for a period anterior to the discovery of those countries, whose mines have since furnished Europe with its _bijouterie_. Isabella, however, set so little value on them, that she divested herself of most of them in favor of her daughters.

[17] Bernaldez, Reyes Catolicos, MS., cap. 92.--Pulgar, Reyes Catolicos, cap. 120, 121.--Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, tom. viii. p. 93.--Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., lib. 3, epist. 80.

[18] Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., lib. 3, epist. 80.--Conde, Dominacion de los Arabes, tom. iii. p. 242.--Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1489.--Cardonne, Hist. d'Afrique et d'Espagne, tom. iii. p. 305.

[19] Pulgar, Reyes Catolicos, cap. 124.--Marmol, Rebelion de Moriscos, lib. 1, cap. 16.

[20] Conde, Dominacion de los Arabes, tom. iii. cap. 40.--Bleda, Coronica, p. 612.--Bernaldez, Reyes Catolicos, MS., cap. 92.--Marmol, Rebelion de Moriscos, lib. 1, cap. 16.

[21] Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., lib. 3, epist. 81.--Cardonne, Hist.

d'Afrique et d'Espagne, tom. iii. p. 340.--Pulgar, Reyes Catolicos, loc.

cit.--Conde, Dominacion de los Arabes, tom. iii. cap. 40.

[22] El Nubiense, Descripcion de Espana, p. 160, not.--Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1488.--Cardonne, Hist. d'Afrique et d'Espagne, tom. iii. p. 304.

--Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., lib. 3, epist. 81.--Conde, Dominacion de los Arabes, tom. iii. pp. 245, 246.--Bernaldez, Reyes Catolicos, MS., cap. 93.

[23] Zurita, a.n.a.les, tom. iv. fol. 360.--Abarca, Reyes de Aragon, tom. ii.

fol. 308.

[24] The city of Seville alone maintained 600 horse and 8000 foot under the count of Cifuentes, for the s.p.a.ce of eight months during this siege.

See Zuniga, Annales de Sevilla, p. 404.

CHAPTER XV.

WAR OF GRANADA.--SIEGE AND SURRENDER OF THE CITY OF GRANADA.

1490-1492.