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By him also the doctor Illescas, and the bishop Paulus Jovius have been misled in the works which they have published.
They entreated him, therefore, in future to protect them with the force of his mind in the cabinet, rather than of his arm in the field. He, however, was conscious of the extreme peril to which he had been exposed, and made a vow never again to venture into battle without having his sword girt to his side.* * Illescas, Hist. Pontif., lib. 6, c. 20; Vedmar, Hist. Velez Malaga.
Illescas is ours, and a great part of Esquivias, as also the mortgage on Talavera. Afterwards came the fighting prelate, Don Rodrigo, who took much land from the Moors, and the Cathedral possesses one principality, the Adelantamiento de Cazorla, with towns like Baza, Niebla, and Alcaraz.
Their hair and beards were overgrown and shagged; they were wasted by hunger, half naked, and in chains. She ordered that they should be clothed and cherished, and money furnished them to bear them to their homes.* * Illescas, Hist. Pontif., lib. 6, c. 20, \0xA4 1.
"Besides, sire," added the duke, "Your Majesty should bethink you that the troops about to take the field are mere men of Andalusia, whereas your illustrious predecessors never made an inroad into the territory of the Moors without being accompanied by a powerful force of the stanch and iron warriors of Old Castile." * Illescas, Hist. Pontifical.
But as to how he was received, the author of this tale says not a word, for the moment he has put Pedro Alonso into the saddle, he leaves him to give the following account of what occurred to Avendaño and Carriazo at the entrance of Illescas. Just by the town gate they met two muleteers, Andalusians apparently, one of whom was coming from Seville, and the other going thither.
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