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

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licence, and summoning them to Cuenca
for the purpose. They replied that they
would elect a person proper for the service
of God and the King, but that it was not
lawful to hold an election in Cuenca or
any other town not of their Order, and at
Ucles incontinently they elected D. Vasco
Lopez. The King was not pleased. He
seems to have moved out of their country
into his own, and sent for them to come
to him at Guadalajara: and there he
explained that he desired to have his six-
year-old son D. Fadrique elected. D.
Vasco Lopez, hearing of this, went to
Montanches and took the treasure and
many precious things withal, and withdrew
to Portugal. This was stated at the chap-
ter in Ocana called by King Alfonso’s
orders, and it is quite credible: other
accusations, like that of coining false
money, and entering a city over the' wall,
are commonplaces of false-witness and may
be dismissed. The chapter obediently
elected the baby son of Leonor de Guzman,
and consented that her brother D. Alonso
Mendez de Guzman should be frocked for
D. Vasco
L6pez
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