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
One of the
Divers
Feats is
D. Enri-
que’s
interval, “Castile for King Henry!” He
was made Camarero Mayor and shared in
the expedition against Granada that began
so gallantly. You may read it all in the
Divers Feats of Mosen Diego de Valera:
how first the King would risk his life in a
skirmish, an arrow reached him and the
nobles blamed him; and then he would not
risk his army in an ambush, or what seemed
such—and again the nobles blamed him;
how finally he made a truce on terms of
tribute and supplies of food and fruit and
goodwill, and the release of all Christian
captives, and still the nobles were ill-
content. In the following year another
expedition was already launched, when the
King had news of conspiracies in Castile
and withdrew to go up thither, nor indeed
did he ever get back to finish what had been
so hardly begun. Even so far back as in
April of 1455, at the first setting out, near
Cordova, according to the Chronicle of the
King’s chaplain, Diego Enriquez del Cas-
tillo, some of the King’s friends knew of a
conspiracy to seize the King’s person, and
they persuaded the King to change his
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