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OF THE WAR ON SPAIN ORGANIZATION OF
THE MILITIA

CHAPTER IV
. ALLIANCES OF THE ROYAL FAMILY.--DEATH OF PRINCE
JOHN AND PRINCESS ISABELLA. ROYAL FAMILY OF
CASTILE JOANNA BELTRANEJA MARRIAGE OF THE
PRINCESS ISABELLA DEATH OF HER HUSBAND ALLIANCES
WITH THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA AND THAT OF ENGLAND
JOANNA EMBARKS THE QUEEN'S ANXIETY MARGARET OF
AUSTRIA RETURNS IN THE FLEET MARRIAGE OF JOHN AND
MARGARET SECOND MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS ISABELLA
SUDDEN ILLNESS OF PRINCE JOHN HIS DEATH HIS AMIABLE
CHARACTER THE KING AND QUEEN OF PORTUGAL VISIT
SPAIN OBJECTIONS TO THEIR RECOGNITION ISABELLA
DISPLEASED HER DAUGHTER'S DEATH ITS EFFECTS ON
ISABELLA PRINCE MIGUEL'S RECOGNITION

CHAPTER V
. DEATH OF CARDINAL MENDOZA.--RISE OF
XIMENES.--ECCLESIASTICAL REFORM. DEATH OF MENDOZA
HIS EARLY LIFE AND CHARACTER HIS AMOURS THE QUEEN
HIS EXECUTOR BIRTH OF XIMENES HE VISITS ROME HIS
RETURN AND IMPRISONMENT ESTABLISHED AT SIGUENZA
ENTERS THE FRANCISCAN ORDER HIS SEVERE PENANCE
HIS ASCETIC LIFE HE IS MADE GUARDIAN OF SALZEDA
INTRODUCED TO THE QUEEN MADE HER CONFESSOR
ELECTED PROVINCIAL CORRUPTION OF THE MONASTERIES
ATTEMPTS AT REFORM SEE OF TOLEDO VACANT OFFERED
TO XIMENES HE RELUCTANTLY ACCEPTS CHARACTERISTIC
ANECDOTES OF XIMENES HIS AUSTERE LIFE REFORM IN HIS

DIOCESE EXAMPLE OF HIS SEVERITY REFORM OF THE
MONASTIC ORDERS GREAT EXCITEMENT CAUSED BY IT
VISIT OF THE FRANCISCAN GENERAL INSULTS THE QUEEN
THE POPE'S INTERFERENCE CONSENTS TO THE REFORM ITS
OPERATION AND EFFECTS ALVARO GOMEZ, AND
BIOGRAPHERS OF XIMENES

CHAPTER VI
. XIMENES IN GRANADA.--PERSECUTION, INSURRECTION,
AND CONVERSION OF THE MOORS. INTRODUCTORY
REMARKS XIMENES, HIS CONSTANCY OF PURPOSE
TRANQUIL STATE OF GRANADA TENDILLA TALAVERA
ARCHBISHOP OF GRANADA HIS MILD POLICY THE CLERGY
DISSATISFIED WITH IT TEMPERATE SWAY OF THE
SOVEREIGNS XIMENES IN GRANADA HIS VIOLENT
MEASURES DESTROYS ARABIC BOOKS MISCHIEVOUS
EFFECTS REVOLT OF THE ALBAYCIN XIMENES BESIEGED IN
HIS PALACE THE INSURGENTS APPEASED BY TALAVERA
DISPLEASURE OF THE SOVEREIGNS XIMENES HASTENS TO
COURT CONVERSION OP GRANADA APPLAUDED BY THE
SPANIARDS

CHAPTER VII
. RISING IN THE ALPUXARRAS.--DEATH OF ALONSO DE
AGUILAR.--EDICT AGAINST THE MOORS. THE ALPUXARRAS
RISING OF THE MOORS HUEJA SACKED FERDINAND
MARCHES INTO THE MOUNTAINS CARRIES LANJARON
PUNISHMENT OF THE REBELS REVOLT OF THE SIERRA
VERMEJA RENDEZVOUS AT RONDA EXPEDITION INTO THE
SIERRA THE MOORS RETREAT UP THE MOUNTAINS RETURN
ON THE SPANIARDS ALONSO DE AGUILAR HIS GALLANTRY
AND DEATH HIS NOBLE CHARACTER BLOODY ROUT OF THE
SPANIARDS DISMAY OF THE NATION THE REBELS SUBMIT
TO FERDINAND BANISHMENT OR CONVERSION
COMMEMORATIVE BALLADS MELANCHOLY
REMINISCENCES EDICT AGAINST THE MOORS OF CASTILE
CHRISTIANITY AND MAHOMETANISM CAUSES OF
INTOLERANCE AGGRAVATED IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
EFFECTS OF THE INQUISITION DEFECTS OF THE TREATY OF

GRANADA EVASION OF IT BY THE CHRISTIANS PRIESTLY
CASUISTRY LAST NOTICE OF THE MOORS IN THE PRESENT
REIGN

CHAPTER VIII
. COLUMBUS.--PROSECUTION OF DISCOVERY.--HIS
TREATMENT BY THE COURT. PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY
MISCONDUCT OF THE COLONISTS COMPLAINTS AGAINST
COLUMBUS HIS SECOND RETURN THE QUEEN'S
CONFIDENCE IN HIM UNSHAKEN HONORS CONFERRED ON
HIM HIS THIRD VOYAGE DISCOVERS TERRA FIRMA MUTINY
IN THE COLONY LOUD COMPLAINTS AGAINST COLUMBUS
BIGOTED VIEWS IN REGARD TO THE HEATHEN MORE
LIBERAL SENTIMENTS OF ISABELLA SHE SENDS BACK THE
INDIAN SLAVES AUTHORITY TO BOBADILLA OUTRAGE ON
COLUMBUS DEEP REGRET OF THE SOVEREIGNS RECEPTION
OF COLUMBUS VINDICATION OF THE SOVEREIGNS
COMMISSION TO OVANDO GROUNDLESS IMPUTATIONS ON
THE GOVERNMENT THE ADMIRAL'S DESPONDENCY HIS
FOURTH AND LAST VOYAGE REMARKABLE FATE OF HIS
ENEMIES

CHAPTER IX
. SPANISH COLONIAL POLICY. CAREFUL PROVISION FOR
THE COLONIES LIBERAL GRANTS LICENSE FOR PRIVATE
VOYAGES THEIR SUCCESS INDIAN DEPARTMENT CASA DE
CONTRATACION IMPORTANT PAPAL CONCESSIONS SPIRIT
OF THE COLONIAL LEGISLATION THE QUEEN'S ZEAL FOB
CONVERTING THE NATIVES UNHAPPILY DEFEATED
IMMEDIATE PROFITS FROM THE DISCOVERIES ORIGIN OF
THE VENEREAL DISEASE MORAL CONSEQUENCES OP THE
DISCOVERIES THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL EXTENT HISTORIANS
OF THE NEW WORLD PETER MARTYR HERRERA AND
MUÑOZ

PART FIRST. [CONTINUED.]

CHAPTER XII
.
INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE KINGDOM.--INQUISITION IN

ARAGON.
1483-1487.
Isabella enforces the Laws.--Punishment of Ecclesiastics.--Inquisition
in Aragon.--Remonstrances of the Cortes.--Conspiracy.--Assassination
of the Inquisitor Arbues.--Cruel Persecutions.--Inquisition throughout
Ferdinand's Dominions.
In such intervals of leisure as occurred amid their military operations,
Ferdinand and Isabella were diligently occupied with the interior
government of the kingdom, and especially with the rigid
administration of justice, the most difficult of all duties in an
imperfectly civilized state of society. The queen found especial demand
for this in the northern provinces, whose rude inhabitants were little
used to subordination. She compelled the great nobles to lay aside their
arms, and refer their disputes to legal arbitration. She caused a number
of the fortresses, which were still garrisoned by the baronial banditti, to
be razed to the ground; and she enforced the utmost severity of the law
against such inferior criminals as violated the public peace. [1]
Even ecclesiastical immunities, which proved so effectual a protection
in most countries at this period, were not permitted to screen the
offender. A remarkable instance of this occurred at the city