Volume III Part 35 (1/2)

[1] Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1516, cap. 8.--Robles, Vida de Ximenez, cap. 18.--Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 150.--Quintanilla, Archetypo, lib.

4, cap. 5.--Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS., dial. de Ximeni.

[2] Carbajal has given us Charles's epistle, which is subscribed ”El Principe.” He did not venture on the t.i.tle of king in his correspondence with the Castilians, though he affected it abroad. a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1516, cap. 10.

[3] The letter of the council is dated March 14th, 1516. It is recorded by Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1516, cap. 10.

[4] It became permanently so in the following reign of Philip II.

Semanario Erudito, tom. iii. p. 79.

[5] Carbajal penetrates into the remotest depths of Spanish history for an authority for Charles's claim. He can find none better, however, than the examples of Alfonso VIII. and Ferdinand III.; the former of whom used force, and the latter obtained the crown by the voluntary cession of his mother. His argument, it is clear, rests much stronger on expediency, than precedent. a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1516, cap. 11.

[6] Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 151 et seq.--Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1516, cap. 9-11.--Lanuza, Historias, tom. i. lib. 2, cap. 2.--Dormer, a.n.a.les de Aragon, lib. 1, cap. 1, 13.--Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist.

572, 590, 603.--Sandoval, Hist, del Emp. Carlos V., tom. i. p. 53.

[7] Robles, Vida de Ximenez, cap. 18.--Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 158.-- Lanuza, Historias, tom. i. lib. 2, cap. 4.

Alvaro Gomez finds no better authority than vulgar rumor for this story.

According to Robles, the cardinal, after this bravado, twirled his cordelier's belt about his fingers, saying, ”he wanted nothing better than that to tame the pride of the Castilian n.o.bles with!” But Ximenes was neither a fool nor a madman; although his over-zealous biographers make him sometimes one, and sometimes the other. Voltaire, who never lets the opportunity slip of seizing a paradox in character or conduct, speaks of Ximenes as one ”qui, toujours vetu en cordelier, met son faste a fouler sous ses sandales le faste Espagnol.” Essai sur les Moeurs, chap. 121.

[8] Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1516, cap. 13.--Quintanilla, Archetypo, lib. 4, cap. 5.--Sempere, Hist. des Cortes, chap. 25.--Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 159.--Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS.

[9] Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 174 et seq.--Robles, Vida de Ximenez, cap. 18.-Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1516, cap. 13.

[10] Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1516, cap. 11.--Aleson, Annales de Navarra, tom. v. p. 327.--Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 570.-- Quintanilla, Archetypo, lib. 4, cap. 5.

[11] Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 164, 165.--Herrera, Indias Occidentales, tom. i. p. 278.--Las Casas, Oeuvres, ed. de Llorente, tom. i. p. 239.

Robertson states the ground of Ximenes's objection to have been, the iniquity of reducing one set of men to slavery, in order to liberate another. (History of America, vol. i. p. 285.) A very enlightened reason, for which, however, I find not the least warrant in Herrera, (the authority cited by the historian,) nor in Gomez, nor in any other writer.

[12] Llorente, Hist. de l'Inquisition, tom. i, chap. 10, art. 5.

[13] Paramo, De Origine Inquisitionis, lib. 2, t.i.t. 2, cap. 5.--Llorente, Hist. de l'Inquisition, tom. i. chap. 11, art. l.--Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 184, 185.

[14] Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1517, cap. 2.--Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 189, 190.--Robles, Vida de Ximenez, cap. 18.--Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 581.--Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS.

”Ni properaveritis,” says Martyr in a letter to Marliano, Prince Charles's physician, ”ruent omnia. Nescit Hispania parere non regibus, aut non legitime regnaturis. _Nauseam inducit magnanimis viris hujus fratris_, licet potentis et reipublicae amatoris, gubernatio. Est quippe grandis animo, et ipse, ad aedificandum literatosqne viros fovendum natus magis qnam ad imperandum, bellicis colloquiis et apparatibus gaudet.” Opus Epist., epist. 573.

[15] Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 198-201.--Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 567, 584, 590.--Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1517, cap. 3, 6.-- Oviedo, Quincuagenas, MS.--Sandoval, Hist. del Emp. Carlos V., tom. i. p.

73.

[16] In a letter to Marliano, Martyr speaks of the large sums, ”ab hoc gubernatore ad vos missae, sub parandae cla.s.sis praetextu.” (Opus Epist., epist. 576.) In a subsequent epistle to his Castilian correspondents, he speaks in a more sarcastic tone. ”_Bonus ille frater_ Ximenez Cardinalis gubernator thesauros ad Belgas transmittendos coacervavit. ***** Glacialis Oceani accolae ditabuntur, vestra expilabitur Castilla.” (Epist. 606.) From some cause or other, it is evident the cardinal's government was not at all to honest Martyr's taste. Gomez suggests, as the reason, that his salary was clipped off in the general retrenchment, which he admits was a very hard case. (De Rebus Gestis, fol. 177.) Martyr, however, was never an extravagant encomiast of the cardinal, and one may imagine much more creditable reasons, than that a.s.signed, for his disgust with him now.

[17] See a letter in Carbajal, containing this honest tribute to the ill.u.s.trious dead. (a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1517, cap. 4.) Charles might have found an antidote to the poison of his Flemish sycophants in the faithful counsels of his Castilian ministers.

[18] Peter Martyr, Opus Epist., epist. 602.--Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol.

194.-Robles, Vida de Ximenez, cap. 18.

Martyr, in a letter written just before the king's landing, notices the cardinal's low state of health and spirits. ”Cardinalis gubernator Matriti febribus aegrotaverat; convaluerat; nunc recidivavit. ***** Breves fore dies illius, medici automant. Est octogenario major; ipse regis adventum affectu avidissimo desiderare videtur. Sent.i.t sine rege non rite posse corda Hispanorum moderari ac regi.” Epist. 598.

[19] Fla.s.san, Diplomatic Francais, tom. i. p. 313.--Dumont, Corps Diplomatique, tom. iv. part. 1, no. 106.

[20] Carbajal, a.n.a.les, MS., ano 1517, cap. 9.--Dormer, a.n.a.les de Aragon, lib. 1. cap. 1.--Ulloa, Vita di Carlo V., fol. 43.--Dolce, Vita di. Carlo V., p. 12.--Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 212.--Sandoval, Hist, del Emp.