King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

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MILITARY ORDERS
A war by
raiding
advance at Ubeda. But the Moors did
not come to look for him. Later, however,
those of Ubeda and Baeza gathered a great
force, and besieged Ferral for ten days.
He, being forewarned, had sent to Toledo
for help, and to all the cities of his Order,
and thrown himself into the threatened
castle in time. There was a battle finally,
about where that of Las Navas was later
to be fought, and there many died on both
sides. Returning to Calatrava victorious,
he divided the spoil and gave the greater
part to the Toledans in recompense for
their good help, and the city had great
rejoicing and the archbishop ordered
thanksgiving in the cathedral and a pro-
cession. A set battle was a serious matter,
and much of the warfare consisted rather
in skilful raids enhanced by brilliant skir-
mishes: Argote de Molina copies out with
quiet complacency the story of this Mas-
ter’s return from his latest exploit in which
he captured many Moors who were going
about the country, and came home driving
—he and his freyles—plenty of fine cattle
before them, and so entered into Cala-
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