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

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to present themselves but are not admitted
into the town. The Master was to be
moved to the castle of Piedra Buena and
the Keeper to come up from Alcantara to
make sure he was not under restraint, for
the Infant D. Enrique, rather, should be
held in pledge for the services done him:
however, it appears that the Master was
actually held as a hostage. So the match
was played out: the King removing from
Valladolid to Salamanca to be nearer at
hand, with all the coming and going of
messengers, and D. Pedro being removed to
Valencia de Alcantara, where another uncle
of the Comendador Mayor was Warden, and
could guard him better.
The historian has been hardly just to
D. Juan de Sotomayor, who, for all his
suddenness, was a good man in a bad place,
and powerless more than once. Where the
King had summoned him and sent the
Bishop of Cuenca, the cleric had been afraid
to enter the lands of Alcantara, and the
Master had been afraid to leave them. In
refusing to go to court, where his enemies
held the King’s ear, he had shown no more
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