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

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what to do he said, “I have no counsel for
myself nor for you,” and changed horses
and went on to Jaen.
But on the field of Las Navas the work
was finishing. Not unmindful of Calatrava,
the Kings had ordered straitly that none
Discipline
should stop for looting, and the knights
were busy still. D. Roderick notes with
surprise that, though the dead were tall
men and stout, no blood was seen upon the
field. The wretched masses overthrown
must have suffocated in heaps, been crushed
and trampled, been clubbed and battered,
and doubtless also been picked up as part
of the spoil. The chronicler piles it up
hastily: “There was much gold taken,
much silver and many precious stuffs of
silk, and many jewels and much money,
The spoil
and many vases and cups; and all this was
taken by the foot-soldiers and by some
knights of Aragon: for those who had zeal
for the faith and love for Our Lord, and
loved the Law and knew what shame is,
stayed strictly at their proper business, to
them victory was wealth and honour and
glory: and withal they laboured till night-
HISPANIC NOTES