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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They were Companions Adventurers and
had nothing to lose. And on the other side
the Master of Avis was a King’s bastard
who had made himself King in Portugal.
His forces, with their English contingent,
drew out from Lisbon: “And without the
English
town a quarter of a league or there about,
there was a great abbey of monks, whither
they of Juberoth and of other villages were
wont to come and hear mass, and the
allies in the
Spanish
peninsula
church standeth a little out of the way in
a moat environed about with great trees,
hedges and bushes: it was a strong place
with a little help.” They cut down the
The
trees and laid them so as to encumber
cavalry, and stationed their archers and
cross-bowmen within the blockade; and
when the Spaniards drew out to view the
field the advisers of the King would have
him wait for the morrow, Sir Diego Gomez
Manrique, Sir Diego Pier Sarmiento, Pier
Gonzalez of Mendoza and the Great Master
of Calatrava: but again the French urged
on. So the King said at last, “I will in
the name of God and S. James that our
enemies be fought withal,” and for the
preparation
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