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

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only possible career was that of the pro-
fessional bully. In his relation with D.
Juan, which was sheer brutal coercion,
with Dona Catalina, which was abduction
and worse, with his own family, which was
a superior sort of blackmail varied by
complicity, he played out in palaces the
role of the ruffiano that the comedies and
novels have developed.
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to
To him succeeded D. Alvaro de Luna
the Constable of Castile. His predecessor
in the Constabulary of Castile had been
D. Ruy L6pez Davalos, who died in exile
and poverty, though before, as men said,
he could travel from Seville to Santiago
de Galicia and lie every night in his own
house. The Master being once in Valencia
desired to visit him, but the old man sent
back a message: “Tell your lord D. Alvaro
that what he is, we were, and what we are,
he shall be.”
D. Ruy
L6pez
Davalos,
Constable
of Castile
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