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

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more. But for the rest, fat commanderies
should still be distributed, and precedence
and prestige should still count at court,
and great wealth and the command of
many men should still be within reach.
To us the policy, finally triumphant, of
Ferdinand and Isabel, seems the ending
of a world, but in those days it must have
happened as imperceptibly as the turning
of a tide.
I
Little
change
when the
Catholic
Kings incor-
porated the
Mastership
Forty years is a long time, and the
younger generation grows impatient when
old men will not die. When D. Frey Luys
de Guzman was old and sick, and as his
lieutenant D. Ferdinand de Padilla, the
Clavero, was administering the Order, a
rumour came to Toledo that the Master
was dead. The Comendador Mayor D.
Juan Ramirez de Guzman then hoped to
be elected Master in his stead. The King
being of no value politically and the parties
playing off against each other, D. Juan
His nick-
name was
came de
cabra
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