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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fall.” The scarlet pavilion was taken home,
however, into the north by King Peter of
Aragon for a token, like that tent of
Francis I, still preserved in the Armoury
at Madrid: and the chains thereof were
and about
set about the shield of Navarre, and the
banner from above it hangs still in the
Convent of Las Huelgas de Burgos.
When night fell, the host sat down within
the tents—“tired but happy,” says the
chronicler, as though they had but passed
the day in woodcraft. They had taken
not only camels but other beasts as well,
and they supped full: and for firewood for
all the army the broken lances and the
arrows sufficed so long as they stayed there.
The third day they moved.
a chapel in
Pampeluna
cloister
When they took Baeza they burned the
mosque and therein those who had taken
refuge there; but when they came to
The clergy
Ubeda the citizens offered to pay a high
exacts the
ransom for their lives and city and the
Kings would fain have accepted. The
clergy would not admit it: they had not
borne this war, they said, to leave in the
midst of recovered and rechristened land
worst
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