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

IN SPAIN
255
He was at S. Cruz, in the west, arranging
a Portuguese marriage for the Princess
Joan, and trying to get his hand on the
city of Trujillo, when the same malady
struck him that had slain his brother, an
imposthume of the throat, and he vomited
blood and so died. But his men hid his
death and set him in a chair, darkening
the room, and the Alcayde surrendered
the stronghold to the dead man.
He had resigned the Mastership to his
son, and the trezes and most of the knights
had approved, too, perforce, but before the
Bull could come from Rome, King Henry
died, and D. Diego Lopez Pacheco could
not hold what he had. He remained loyal,
notwithstanding, to the Princess.
A strange
and sudden
malady
r
D. Enrique IV was now dead, having in
his last hour declared that the excellent
Lady Doha Juana was his daughter and
his heiress—so the impartial historians
believe. These are not the contemporary
ones, as may be well understood, for it was
Contem-
porary
history not
impartial
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