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

IN SPAIN
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Moventa, hoping to get control of the
whole machinery while shattered. Alcaniz,
notwithstanding, remained, as said above,
no more than encomienda mayor, the Mas-
ter going up, in a lull about 1207, and
adjusting matters. But there was little
rest. The Master D. Nuno being past
fighting now, he sent out the knights under
D. Martin Martinez, and they took Salva-
tierra in the Campo de Calatrava and trans-
lated the convent thither; and four years
later elected D. Martin with the title,
Master of Salvatierra. Then the Moors
besieged that castle for three months, and
took it, and pulled it down, and the con-
vent passed to Zorita, and again many
candidates received the habit. It is likely
that nearly any one will be received at such
a time, if so that he be able-bodied, but
applicants know that if it is a short road
Ambition
in Aragon
A sure
to nobility it is also a short cut to heaven,
chance for.
and at the cross-roads they stand, well-
content.
Paradise
AND MONOGRAPHS