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
/S. Maria
ten tii dial
“And when
at last
defeated in
His wars . .
afternoon sun till the work could be
finished, as He did for Joshua, captain of
the hosts of Israel; and this being S. Mary’s
Day—he had said, 5. Mary, stop your day!
—and she interceding, the sun had been
stayed for a very noticeable time.
The death of the Master D. Gonzalo
Ruiz Giron in 1280, though it is written
in the contemporary Chronicle of Alfonso X,
is stuff torn off from a romance. It was
Saturday, the eve of S. John; the host
under the Infant D. Sancho had entered
the Vega of Granada and was awaiting
reinforcements there: and the Prince gave
it strictly in charge to D. Gonzalo Ruiz
Giron, and an abbot from Valladolid, and
another, to guard those who went out for
forage, and for food and for wood. The
expedition pushed as far as the castle of
Moclin, and already the provisioners were
safe again in camp, and the others strag-
gling back, when near the castle came in
sight a hundred Moorish knights. Then
the Master, because his heart was great,
waited for none of the others nor yet for
his own folk but started to attack them
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